1. feather

noun. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds.

Rhymes with Feather

• merriweather
• get-together
• altogether
• together
• whether
• grether
• weather
• tether
• sether
• raether
• nether
• leather
• heather

How do you pronounce feather?

Pronounce feather as ˈfɛðər.

US - How to pronounce feather in American English

UK - How to pronounce feather in British English

Sentences with feather

1. Noun, singular or mass
Press the steam button as you move the iron over the length of the feather.

2. Adjective, comparative
Take the feather off of the ironing board once you have straightened it out.

3. Adverb
You can clean your duck feather sofa cushions using an effective method that involves a bath tub.

4. Adjective
Place the duck feather cushion in the tub.

5. Adverb, comparative
Repeat feather applying process.

Quotes about feather

1. Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
- Virginia Woolf

2. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
- Allen Ginsberg

2. princes-feather

noun. tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal.

3. gay-feather

noun. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.

4. prince's-feather

noun. tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal.

5. feather

verb. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] join tongue and groove, in carpentry.

6. feather

verb. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] turn the paddle; in canoeing.

7. feather

noun. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls.

8. feather

verb. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] turn the oar, while rowing.

9. feather

verb. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] cover or fit with feathers.

10. feather

verb. ['ˈfɛðɝ'] grow feathers.