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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

pollo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pollo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chicken/ˈtʃɪk.ən/
nounCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ho ordinato un piatto di pollo arrosto."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.

    "The farmer feeds the chickens every morning."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Informal term meaning easily frightened or cowardly.

    "Don't be so chicken; jump into the pool!"
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'chicken' derives from Old English 'cicen', meaning a young fowl or chicken, stemming from Proto-Germanic *kikīnan-. Over centuries, the term broadened to refer to the adult bird (Gallus gallus domesticus) as well as its meat used as food across global culinary traditions.

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