This is why birds like the pigeon or the Arctic tern can find their way around the world.
Source: tatoeba (62400)
Tern
//tɜːn//
Synonyms for "tern" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesat location
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
66 translations across 50 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аԥсаатә noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κήξ noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Arabic
1 entries- خَرْشَنَة noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Asturian
3 entries- carranclín noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- chirri noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- garrochín noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Bulgarian
1 entries- морска лястовица noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Catalan
1 entries- xatrac noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 海鷗 /海鸥 noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Czech
1 entries- rybák noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Danish
1 entries- terne noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Dutch
1 entries- stern noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝterno noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Faroese
1 entries- terna noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Finnish
1 entries- tiira noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
French
1 entries- sterne noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Galician
1 entries- carrán noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Georgian
2 entries- ტერნი noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- ⴒⴄⴐⴌⴈ noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
German
2 entries- Meerschwalbe noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- Seeschwalbe noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Greek
1 entries- στέρνα noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Hungarian
1 entries- csér noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Icelandic
1 entries- þerna noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Ido
1 entries- alcedo noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Irish
2 entries- geabhróg noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- scréachóg thrá noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Italian
1 entries- sterna noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Japanese
1 entries- アジサシ noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Korean
1 entries- 제비갈매기 noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Latin
2 entries- larus noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- sterna noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Manx
3 entries- gant Arctagh noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- gant cadjin noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- gollan marrey noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Mazanderani
1 entries- اسپریک noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Mokilese
1 entries- pares noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Navajo
1 entries- tónteel táshchozhii noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Norman
1 entries- daûtchet noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- terne noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- terne noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Polish
1 entries- rybitwa noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Portuguese
2 entries- andorinha-do-mar noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- gaivina noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Romanian
1 entries- rândunică-de-mare noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Russian
1 entries- кра́чка noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- steàrnag noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- steàrnal noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- steàrnan noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mòrska lȁstavica noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- čȉgra noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Slovak
1 entries- rybár noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Slovene
1 entries- čígra noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Spanish
3 entries- charrán noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- fumarel noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- gaviotín noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Swedish
1 entries- tärna noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Tiwi
2 entries- martapaka noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- wujirrini noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Turkish
1 entries- sumrugil noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кря́чок noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Volapük
1 entries- melasval noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Welsh
2 entries- morwennol noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
- môr-wennol noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
West-Frisian
1 entries- stirns noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Wik-Mungkan
1 entries- oopal noun (bird of the subfamily Sternidae)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Have you heard of a bird called the Arctic Tern?
Source: tatoeba (70129)
"A tern is flying away over the sea," said the children who saw the white bird. Now it dived into the sea, and now it soared up into the bright sunshine. It gleamed so brightly that it was not possible to see what became of it; they said it flew right into the sun.
Source: tatoeba (7740933)
He felt the sun very hot upon his shoulders, and he heard the harsh, insistent jarring of a tern that hovered and circled with forked tail and sharp white wings in the sunlight just above their heads; but all the time he stood staring into the good old gentleman's face.
Source: tatoeba (12428504)
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