Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Lark   /lɑrk/   Listen
Lark

noun
1.
North American songbirds having a yellow breast.  Synonym: meadowlark.
2.
A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.  Synonyms: pipit, titlark.
3.
Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.
4.
Any carefree episode.  Synonym: escapade.
verb
(past & past part. larked; pres. part. larking)
1.
Play boisterously.  Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport.  "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"



Related searches:
lark about
eastern meadowlark
skylark
western meadowlark


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Lark" Quotes from Famous Books



... luxuriant tapestry of ferns and ivies and blossoming vines. Even the roofs are covered with flowers; every cranny bears a blossom or a tuft of green. Then above, long stretches of barren heath (with a few twisted and wind-tortured trees), where the sheep pasture and the sky-lark sings, and in and out of the red-fronted cliffs the querulous sea-gulls flash in the sunshine, and make their plaintive moan. Near Lynton there is the famous Valley of Rocks, where the wise woman, Mother Melldrum, had her winter ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... salient diamonds of her highest voice, which arches like the tall shaft of a fountain sparkling in the sun. The introduction, a bold, exhorting strain, in grandiose style, full of large intervals, was given with a glorious fervor, and no lark ever carolled more blithely or more at ease than her voice as it soared to F in alt! Benedict's English ballad, 'Take this Lute,' she sang with a simplicity and pathos that won the audience completely; and no part seemed more genuine or more expressive than the ...
— A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career. Life of Hon. Phineas T. • Joel Benton
... courtyard into the park beyond. Presently the sky began to soften in the east, and the gray uncertain light gave place to the blushing dawn. Soon the dark shadows that lurked under the trees fled before the golden beams of the sun. Suddenly the note of a lark rang out silvery and joyous. Bird after bird took up the note until from every tree and shrub there swelled a grand chorus as larks and throstles poured forth their ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... a small voice, sweet and flute-like, which seemed to come from above. Agnella raised her head and saw a lark perched on the top of the front door. "You revenge yourself too cruelly for an injury inflicted, not upon you in your character of a fairy but upon the ugly and disgusting form in which it has pleased you to ...
— Old French Fairy Tales • Comtesse de Segur
... be orchards filled with fruit, And song of meadow lark and song of flute; Far from the city there are lover's fields, Lips eloquent ...
— The Five Books of Youth • Robert Hillyer


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org