pipit C2 Topic:Animals US /ˈpɪpɪt/ UK /ˈpɪpɪt/ See IPA manual Freq #187579 Meanings 1 noun a small, slender, usually brown and streaked ground-feeding songbird, chiefly of the genus Anthus, found in open country A meadow pipit rose from the grass and delivered its thin song during a short display flight. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a small, slender, usually... titlark Word family Forms pipits Derived forms pipit-like Related forms AnthusMotacillidaemeadow pipittree pipitwagtail Etymology Recorded in English in the eighteenth century and probably imitative of the bird's repeated call; compare Malay pipit, a name for small birds that may share the same sound-symbolic origin. Topics Animals External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # pipit **Type:** Word **Level:** C2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈpɪpɪt/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈpɪpɪt/ **Frequency rank:** 187579 ## Meanings 1. a small, slender, usually brown and streaked ground-feeding songbird, chiefly of the genus Anthus, found in open country ## Examples - A meadow pipit rose from the grass and delivered its thin song during a short display flight. ## Synonyms - titlark ## Derived Forms - pipit-like ## Related Forms - Anthus - Motacillidae - meadow pipit - tree pipit - wagtail ## Etymology Recorded in English in the eighteenth century and probably imitative of the bird's repeated call; compare Malay pipit, a name for small birds that may share the same sound-symbolic origin. ## Topics - Animals markdown