Cormorant

Quick meaning: Cormorant is a noun meaning (figuratively, also attributively, archaic) A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

Meaning

(figuratively, also attributively, archaic) A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

More Meanings

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
2. (archaic) Voracious; aggressively greedy.

Example Sentences

The cormorant on high / VVheels from the deep, and ſcreams along the land.

Th' Eele-murthering Hearne, and greedy Cormorant, / That neare the Creekes in moriſh Marſhes haunt.

Thence up he [Satan] flew, and on the Tree of Life, / The middle Tree and higheſt there that grew, / Sat like a Cormorant; […]

The strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has quite restored me. I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of life, and sleep well.

Word Forms

• cormorants

Synonyms for cormorant

Depending on context, synonyms include corvorant, sea crow, glutton, belly-god, buzgut, epicure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crested, chopper, crew, helicopter, gannet, seafowl.

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