noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher.
2. 2
   large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing wordnet
3. 3
   Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.
4. 4
   any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing wordnet
5. 5
   A device for catching flies.

   "Stewart appeared anxious to get all information in connection with a fly-catcher on the counter."

Synonyms

All synonyms

magpienew world flycatchernew world flycatcherold world flycatcherold world flycatchertrue flycatcher

Example

More examples

"The flycatcher has ravaged the flies."

Etymology

From fly + catcher.

Related phrases

Acadian flycatcherAsian brown flycatcherAtlas flycatcherAtlas pied flycatcherEuropean pied flycatcherEuropean spotted flycatcherHainan blue flycatcherKashmir flycatcherNew World flycatcherNilgiri flycatcherOld World flycatcherTraill's flycatcher

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.