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Definition of rara avis in English: rara avisnounPlural rarae aves ˌrɛːrə ˈeɪvɪsˌrɑːrə ˈavɪsˌre(ə)rə ˈāvis another term for rare bird Example sentencesExamples - By mating Western classical music with the musical traditions of his homeland - both popular and classical - Vali has been the foster-father to a beautiful hybrid, a rara avis.
- The author of some noteworthy ones, George Caleb Bingham, was himself a rara avis: a professional painter who was also a political candidate.
- Pull it all together and you will have a rara avis to add zest to your party.
- ‘It can be stated without fear of contradiction,’ Thomas Baker writes, ‘that the truly clever or amusing law review article is the quintessential rara avis.’
- Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist.
- Heller is both a poet and critic, that well-plumed rara avis who flies effortlessly between poetry and criticism and adroitly links their dual legacies.
Synonyms rarity, rare person/thing, rare bird, wonder, marvel, nonpareil, nonesuch, one of a kind, find anomaly, curiosity, oddity, aberration, freak British informal one-off, oner
OriginLatin, with reference to Juvenal's Satires, vi.165. Definition of rara avis in US English: rara avisnounˌre(ə)rə ˈāvis another term for rare bird Example sentencesExamples - Pull it all together and you will have a rara avis to add zest to your party.
- The author of some noteworthy ones, George Caleb Bingham, was himself a rara avis: a professional painter who was also a political candidate.
- Heller is both a poet and critic, that well-plumed rara avis who flies effortlessly between poetry and criticism and adroitly links their dual legacies.
- Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist.
- ‘It can be stated without fear of contradiction,’ Thomas Baker writes, ‘that the truly clever or amusing law review article is the quintessential rara avis.’
- By mating Western classical music with the musical traditions of his homeland - both popular and classical - Vali has been the foster-father to a beautiful hybrid, a rara avis.
Synonyms rarity, rare person, rare thing, rare bird, wonder, marvel, nonpareil, nonesuch, one of a kind, find
OriginLatin, with reference to Juvenal's Satires, vi.165. |