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Meaning of murmurate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.

intransitive

Examples

“By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.”
“There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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