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— English words —

• canary n. A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
• canary n. Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
• canary n. (Informal) A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
• canary n. (Slang) An informer or snitch; a squealer.
• canary n. A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
• canary n. (Slang) A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
• canary n. (Australia, informal) A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
• canary n. Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries…
• canary n. (Computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow…
• canary n. (Computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before…
• canary n. (Countable, uncountable) A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
• canary n. A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
• canary adj. Of a light yellow colour.
• canary v. (Intransitive) to dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
• canary v. (Slang) to inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
• canary v. (Computing) to test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making…
• Canary n. (Soccer) Someone connected with Norwich City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
• Canary adj. (Finance, of an option) That can be exercised on quarterly dates, a set time period (usually one year)…

— English word, defined in German —

• canary S. Kanarienvogel.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• canary bijv. Kanariegeel.
• canary n. (Vogels) kanarie.
• canary n. (Kleur) kanariegeel.
• canary n. (Figuurlijk) ongewild of onwetend proefkonijn (door het gebruik van kanaries om voor mijngas te waarschuwen).
• canary w. Lichtvoetig dansen.

— English words, defined in French —

• canary n. Canari.
• canary adj. Canari (jaune).

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• canary s. Canário.
• Canary s. Torcedor, jogador ou treinador do time de futebol inglês Norwich City Football Club.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• canary s. Canarino.

138 English words from 18 English definitions

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10 English words from 11 foreign definitions

City Club door do␣time Football het Norwich time van Vogels

24 foreign words from 11 foreign definitions

Canari Canarino Canário dansen Figuurlijk futebol gebruik inglês jaune jogador kanarie kanariegeel Kanarienvogel kanaries Kleur Lichtvoetig mijngas ongewild onwetend proefkonijn Torcedor treinador voor waarschuwen

26 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

canary␣fit canarying canarypox canary␣bird canary␣fits canary␣girl canarylike canary␣seed canary␣trap canarywood canary␣birds canary␣girls canarygrass canary␣grass canary␣traps Canary␣Wharf canary␣creeper canarygrasses canary␣grasses Canary␣Islands canary␣creepers Canary␣Islander canarypoxvirus Canary␣Islanders canary␣in␣a␣coal␣mine canary␣in␣the␣coal␣mine

11 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

decanary sea␣canary hairy␣canary miner's␣canary miners'␣canary climate␣canary warrant␣canary Missouri␣canary red␣factor␣canary cat␣that␣ate␣the␣canary Rocky␣Mountain␣canary

17 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ana Ana ANA -ana ana- ary Ary -ary can Can CAN Can. Cana Cañar Nar nary n-ary

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ana Ana ANA -ana ana- NAC ran Ran RAN Rana

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

Ancyra

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acinary anarchy Carnaby carnary crayman

13 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Arçay Aryan ayran Cañar carny Caryn Cryan Cyran nacry NARAC Nayar Rayan Rayna

5 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Canady Canara canard lanary panary

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

Cañar

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

carnary

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