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WHISTLER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Whistler mean?

• WHISTLER (noun)
The noun WHISTLER has 5 senses:

1. United States painter (1834-1903)
2. someone who makes a loud high sound
3. large North American mountain marmot
4. large-headed swift-flying diving duck of arctic regions
5. Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

Familiarity information: WHISTLER used as a noun is common.

Dictionary entry details

• WHISTLER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

United States painter (1834-1903)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler; Whistler

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Someone who makes a loud high sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("whistler" is a kind of...):

signaler; signaller (someone who communicates by signals)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

Large North American mountain marmot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

whistling marmot; Marmota caligata; hoary marmot; whistler

Hypernyms ("whistler" is a kind of...):

marmot (stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter)

Sense 4

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Meaning:

Large-headed swift-flying diving duck of arctic regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bucephela clangula; goldeneye; whistler

Hypernyms ("whistler" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whistler"):

Barrow's goldeneye; Bucephala islandica (North American goldeneye diving duck)

Holonyms ("whistler" is a member of...):

Bucephala; genus Bucephala (buffleheads and goldeneyes)

Sense 5

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Meaning:

Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

thickhead; whistler

Hypernyms ("whistler" is a kind of...):

flycatcher; Old World flycatcher; true flycatcher (any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing)

Holonyms ("whistler" is a member of...):

genus Pachycephala; Pachycephala (arboreal insectivorous birds)

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