Explore Kingfisher through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Kingfisher meaning
- Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
- common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Synonyms of Kingfisher
Kingfisher vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Kingfisher
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish. | Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish. | common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
- Useful related words include: coraciiform bird.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ijsvogel.
- In the example corpus, kingfisher often appears in combinations such as: the kingfisher, kingfisher airlines, kingfisher is.
Context around Kingfisher
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kingfisher
- In this selection, "kingfisher" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pied, billed, flitting, shopping, killing and pub stand out and add context to how "kingfisher" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2024 at kingfisher care home and a flying kingfisher test their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kingfisher" sits close to words such as abacus, abner and acorns, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kingfisher
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kingfisher plc Awards Share Options to Executivestipranks. (7 words)
North Shields Passed away peacefully on 2nd November 2024 at Kingfisher Care Home, aged 86 years. (16 words)
Hungarian director Szimler Balint accepts the Kingfisher Prize at the close of the Ljubljana International Film Festival. (17 words)
In Operation Kingfisher a key fact question is, did the chief of staff of the Minister for Education Yvette Berry, or the head and/or acting Director-General of Education, ever tell Mr Green that the contract was not to go to Manteena? (43 words)
Five months spent documenting the various wetland flora and fauna showed 35 species of birds belonging to 18 families to frequent the lake, such as the Eurasian Marsh Harrier, Indian Pond Heron, Lapwing, Kingfisher, and Small Bee-Eater. (38 words)
B&Q owner Kingfisher said raised the lower end of its profit target for the year as its boss said it had experienced “positive early signs of a housing market recovery”, particularly in the UK. (35 words)
In Operation Kingfisher a key fact question is, did the chief of staff of the Minister for Education Yvette Berry, or the head and/or acting Director-General of Education, ever tell Mr Green that the contract was not to go to Manteena? (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
A pied kingfisher killing a fish it has caught Like many forest-living kingfishers, the yellow-billed kingfisher often nests in arboreal termite nests.
An array of greenery this month will be the latest upgrade to the Canopies, a large partially-enclosed open space between the town’s Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Town Hall Community Hub, and library.
A settlement was reached a year later that required Mr Goddard-Watts, whose family founded DIY chain Screwfix before it was sold to Kingfisher, to hand his ex £4million and a £3.25million house.
At the same time NCA officers also picked up Hunter in Trafford Park, McEvatt near Ribby Hall and Quigley walking away from the Kingfisher Pub near Fylde FC's ground on the same day.
Enjoy a peaceful guided wildlife tour of the beautiful river Wye, see Peregrine falcons to leaping salmon and flitting Kingfisher.
In Marshall Township, there are 419 approved units, with 78 occupied and 341 unoccupied in both the Kingfisher Estates and Randall Plan developments.
In Operation Kingfisher a key fact question is, did the chief of staff of the Minister for Education Yvette Berry, or the head and/or acting Director-General of Education, ever tell Mr Green that the contract was not to go to Manteena?
Kingfisher now has a total of 872 Screwfix stores in the UK and Ireland after opening 82 outlets, and plans a further 60 new stores in this financial year.
On our Twitter poll, 85 per cent voted for the market to be moved outside and 15 per cent voted for it to remain in the Kingfisher.
The display is in the Kingfisher Shopping Centre, and was created in association with Arts in Redditch, Redditch Borough Council and Midlands4Cities.
With close to 100 votes, the winners of the inaugural Wildlife We Love species are: the Koala, Manning River Turtle, Green Tree Frog, Azure Kingfisher and Yellowfin Bream.
B&Q owner Kingfisher said raised the lower end of its profit target for the year as its boss said it had experienced “positive early signs of a housing market recovery”, particularly in the UK.
Code Name Kingfisher springs from the vivid imagination of Liz Kessler, author of twenty-three books for both children and young adults, including the outstanding novel When the World Was Ours.
Families can explore the wildlife that call rivers their home, make a flying kingfisher, test their skills at building a beaver dam, and see up close exactly what lives in the water.
Five months spent documenting the various wetland flora and fauna showed 35 species of birds belonging to 18 families to frequent the lake, such as the Eurasian Marsh Harrier, Indian Pond Heron, Lapwing, Kingfisher, and Small Bee-Eater.
He enjoys trips to the charity Beat This which runs music workshops for people with additional needs, and does aqua-therapy at the Kingfisher Centre for people with disabilities.
Hungarian director Szimler Balint accepts the Kingfisher Prize at the close of the Ljubljana International Film Festival.
Kingfisher plc Awards Share Options to Executivestipranks.
North Shields Passed away peacefully on 2nd November 2024 at Kingfisher Care Home, aged 86 years.
Pam Johnson, also known as Shirley and who works at Doncaster’s Kingfisher Primary School, disappeared last Thursday – with no confirmed sightings since.
Common combinations with kingfisher
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the kingfisher 19×
- kingfisher airlines 5×
- kingfisher is 4×
- kingfisher and 3×
- kingfisher shopping 2×
- kingfisher to 2×
- operation kingfisher 2×
- kingfisher centre 2×
- kingfisher lake 2×
- former kingfisher 2×