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vulture

[ vuhl-cher ]

noun

  1. any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, often having a naked head and less powerful feet than those of the related hawks and eagles.
  2. any of several superficially similar New World birds of the family Cathartidae, as the turkey vulture.
  3. a person or thing that preys, especially greedily or unscrupulously:

    That vulture would sell out his best friend.



vulture

/ ˈvʌltʃə /

noun

  1. any of various very large diurnal birds of prey of the genera Neophron, Gyps, Gypaetus, etc, of Africa, Asia, and warm parts of Europe, typically having broad wings and soaring flight and feeding on carrion: family Accipitridae (hawks) See also griffon 1 lammergeier
  2. any similar bird of the family Cathartidae of North, Central, and South America See also condor turkey buzzard
  3. a person or thing that preys greedily and ruthlessly on others, esp the helpless
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈvulture-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From

  • vulture·like adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vulture1

1325–75; Middle English < Latin vultur
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vulture1

C14: from Old French voltour, from Latin vultur; perhaps related to Latin vellere to pluck, tear
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Example Sentences

There were still bodies in the cornfields and in mud houses being chewed over by vultures.

Nearly as soon as national relevance is sniffed, major conferences begin to circle a lesser-known program and its staff like vultures, poaching coaches and sometimes entire teams.

In the mid-1970s, ZZ Top staged the Worldwide Texas Tour, performing on a Texas-shaped stage home to wagon wheels, corral fences, cactuses and live animals including rattlesnakes, vultures, a longhorn and buffalo.

“It was like vultures swarming the gas pump, just driving around in circles checking all the pumps,” said Alfonso Forte, a clerk at a Circle K north of Charlotte.

We did one, and it’s another instance where we’re just like vultures trying to make a quick buck and profit off a culture we don’t have anything to do with.

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Vulture wrote a helpful-ish explainer about how to make sure you see it.

On Buzzfeed, Vulture, Twitter, and in our hearts, these people are celebrated.

Vulture, too, noticed her “effortless, self-deprecating charm.”

Specifically, it happened on October 15, when the series aired its fifth episode, “The Vulture.”

Vulture Shia LaBeouf responds to Jim Carrey's Golden Globes attack.

Ask the disappointed vulture and the mouth of the muttering earth to tell you, gentlemen passengers!

This, with contemptuous indignation, we fling back into their face, as a scorpion to a vulture.

As the Vulture was of too large a draught to proceed higher, the troops were placed on board the steamers Pluto and Corsair.

Yellow Vulture has seen the taunts calling the red warriors "women with the hearts of deer."

Very few birds probably ascend to a height of two thousand feet in the air, the vulture tribe excepted.

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