stork
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Definition of stork
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
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noun
- A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
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(euphemistic)The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
“My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.”
- The seventeenth Lenormand card.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
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