Synonyms for
Finch
Definition
A small songbird with a conical beak and a colorful plumage.
Synonyms & similar words
Common collocations
- house finch
- goldfinch
- purple finch
- finch family
- song finch
- finch species
- little finch
Word family
noun finch
Usage note
Finch is a common name for many small passerine birds. It is not typically used in a figurative sense, so antonyms and informal synonyms are not applicable.
Example sentences
- The finch's bright yellow feathers caught my eye.
- I love to listen to the sweet songs of the finch.
- We put up a bird feeder to attract finches to our garden.
- The finch flew away quickly when it saw me approaching.
- The finch's beak is perfectly adapted for cracking open seeds.
Quotes
"Sweetly the birds sing; A finch, a sparrow, and a thrush." - Christina Rossetti
"I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self-contained... I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." - Walt Whitman
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." - Robert Lynd