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/ˈspæɹəʊ/ · noun
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers..
Man progresses generally, not both legs at once like a sparrow, but by putting one leg forward first, and then the other.
In a poem by Sappho, Aphrodite is represented as riding in a car drawn by sparrows.
cockney sparrow
I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow.
Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
Use sparrow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sparrow means The house sparrow, Passer domesticus; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers..
Common synonyms include spadger, spoggy, spuggy, true sparrow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Man progresses generally, not both legs at once like a sparrow, but by putting one leg forward first, and then the other.
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