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oriole

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈɔː.ɹiːˌəʊl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈɔɹ.iˌoʊl/
  • homophone: aureole
  • CMU ARPABET: AO1 R IY0 OW2 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of various colourful passerine birds, New World orioles of the genus Icterus (family Icteridae) and Old World orioles of the family Oriolidae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A player on the team Baltimore Orioles.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Examples

  • He became an Oriole as the result of a pre-season trade.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: New World oriole, American oriole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: oscine, oscine bird

Narrower terms: northern oriole, Icterus galbula, orchard oriole, Icterus spurius, meadowlark, lark, cacique, cazique, bobolink, ricebird, reedbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, New World blackbird, blackbird

4

noun

Meaning 4

mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Old World oriole

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: oscine, oscine bird

Narrower terms: golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus, fig-bird

History

Etymology

A borrowing from Middle French oriol, from Old French oriol, from Latin aureolus, diminutive of aureus (“golden”). Doublet of aureole. First use appears c. 1776 in the writings of Thomas Pennant.

Across languages

Translations

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: beng — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Albanian: fikës — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Albanian: planos — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Albanian: fugë — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Southern Altai: ала-сары (ala-sarï) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Armenian: պիրոլ (pirol) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Asturian: cirombella — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Asturian: filomena — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Asturian: sidoru — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Azerbaijani: sarıköynək — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Azerbaijani: sarısandal — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Azerbaijani: zərd — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Bashkir: һарығош (harığoş) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Bulgarian: авли́га (avlíga) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Catalan: oriol — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃鸝 /黄鹂 (huánglí) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 黃鶯 /黄莺 (huángyīng) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鶬鶊 /鸧鹒 (cānggēng) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Czech: žluva — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Old Czech: žluva — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Dutch: wielewaal — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Esperanto: oriolo — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Finnish: kuhankeittäjä — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Finnish: turpiaali — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • French: loriot — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • French: oriole — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • West-Frisian: gielegou — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Galician: vichelocrego — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Galician: ouriolo — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Georgian: მოლაღური (molaɣuri) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • German: Goldamsel — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • German: Pfingstvogel — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • German: Pirol — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Greek: συκοφάγος (sykofágos) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Hungarian: sárgarigó — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Ingrian: metsäkuha — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Irish: óiréal — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Italian: oriolo — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Japanese: 高麗鶯 (kōrai uguisu) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Kazakh: мысықторғай (mysyqtorğai) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Korean: 꾀꼬리 (kkoekkori) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Korean: 아리새 (arisae) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Kumyk: сарича (sariça) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Latvian: vālodze — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Lithuanian: volungė — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Low German: Bülo — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Low German: Pingstvagel — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Navajo: choozhghalii — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Polish: wilga — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Portuguese: oriolo — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Romanian: grangur — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Russian: и́волга (ívolga) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Serbo-Croatian: zlatka — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Slovak: vlha — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Spanish: oropéndola — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Spanish: turpial — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Spanish: bolsero — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Swedish: sommargylling — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Tagalog: kilyawan — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Tagalog: kulyawan — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Turkish: sarıasma — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Turkish: sarıkuş — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Turkish: sarıcık — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Ottoman Turkish: صاری قوش (sarı kuş) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Ukrainian: ви́вільга (vývilʹha) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Ukrainian: і́волга (ívolha) — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Vietnamese: oanh — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Vietnamese: hoàng oanh — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Welsh: oriol — any of the various colourful passerine birds
  • Welsh: euryn — any of the various colourful passerine birds
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