Meaning of Robin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A unisex given name.
2. A male given name from the Romance languages or the Germanic languages.
3. Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.
4. Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
5. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
6. A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.
   uncountable
7. A female given name from the Germanic languages, also associated with the bird robin.
8. An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
9. A surname originating as a patronymic.
10. A trimming in front of a dress.
    historical

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Examples

“As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note⟳.”

“They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like⟳ the old Robin Hood of England”

“This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think⟳ we'll call⟳ him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.”

“Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say⟳ you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have⟳ to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change⟳ your name⟳ by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.”

“"We'll name⟳ her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring⟳ and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.”

“In March⟳ 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count⟳ that high and there was nothing they could do for her.”

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