bluebird

noun

blue·​bird ˈblü-ˌbərd 

: any of three small North American thrushes (Sialia currucoides, S. mexicana, and S. sialis) that are blue above and reddish brown or pale blue below

Examples of bluebird in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Pearl Street Mall on Sunday afternoon was so picture perfect — a bluebird sky, Boulder shoppers dipping in and out of brick buildings, children playing in a splash pad — that bystanders didn’t recognize the first flashes of flame as dangerous. —Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 3 June 2025

Temperate songbirds, including cardinals, bluebirds, wrens and blackbirds, have two main categories of vocalizations: songs and calls. —Sofia Marie Haley, The Conversation, 27 May 2025

The bluebird pair arrived and settled in a tiny, ceramic, ornamental birdhouse hanging next to my backdoor. —Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2025

Second place went to Rodrigo Baca for a bluebird and flowers. —Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1688, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing bluebird

• bluebird day
• eastern bluebird
• mountain bluebird

Rhymes for bluebird

• absurd
• averred
• byword
• catbird
• catchword
• concurred
• conferred
• cowbird
• cowherd
• crossword
• deferred
• demurred

Kids Definition

bluebird

noun

blue·​bird -ˌbərd 

: any of three small North American songbirds related to the robin but more or less blue above