Strasbourg is also an ideal starting point for excursions across the Rhine, to châteaux nestling in the heart of vineyards, villages perching on the mountainside between lakes and forests, and other delights.
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Nestling
//ˈnɛstlɪŋ//
Synonyms for "nestling" (165 found)
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maidenmaidenlymigrantmigratory birdneckingneophyteneotericnestnewnewcomernovicenovitiatenuzzlingoriginaloscine birdowlpasserine birdpeacockpeafowlpeahen
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31 translations across 24 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- кӏэтжъый noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νεοσσός noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Arabic
1 entries- فَرْخ noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Belarusian
1 entries- птушаня́ noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Bulgarian
1 entries- голишарче noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Cebuano
2 entries- kuyabog noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- pispis noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 雛鳥 /雏鸟 noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Czech
1 entries- ptáče noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Dutch
1 entries- nesteling noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Finnish
1 entries- linnunpoikanen noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
French
1 entries- oisillon noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Galician
1 entries- paxariño noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Georgian
1 entries- ბარტყი noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
German
3 entries- Jungvogel noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- Küken noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- Nestling noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Hungarian
1 entries- fióka noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Irish
1 entries- gearrcach noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Japanese
2 entries- 雛 noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- 雛鳥 noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Khmer
1 entries- កូនបក្សី noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Ojibwe
1 entries- banajaanh noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Polish
1 entries- pisklę noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Russian
2 entries- пте́нчик noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- птене́ц noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Swedish
1 entries- bounge noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пташеня́ noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Volapük
3 entries- bödül noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- hibödül noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
- jibödül noun (small, young bird that is still confined to the nest)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Then she gave him some dry figs and bread from her scrip, and whilst he was partaking of this fare she oft-time snatched a morsel from his mouth and ate it, as though she had been a nestling taking food from its mother's beak.
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The prayer finished, they resumed their seat in the shadow of the boulder until the child fell asleep, nestling upon the broad breast of her protector.
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The boy had never before strayed so far north as this from the nestling hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world.
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