stork.
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
Meaning & usage
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
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