Antonyms for pied


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pahyd
Phonetic Transcription : paɪd


Definition of pied

Origin :
  • late 14c., as if it were the past participle of a verb form of Middle English noun pie "magpie" (see pie (n.2)), in reference to the bird's black and white plumage. Earliest use is in reference to the pyed freres, an order of friars who wore black and white. Also in pied piper (1845, in Browning's poem based on the German legend; used allusively by 1939).
  • As in mottled : adj speckled
  • As in multicolored : adj having various hues
  • As in spotted : adj speckled
  • As in streaked : adj having streaks
  • As in multicolor : adj having many colors
  • As in polychromatic : adj multicolor
  • As in polychrome : adj multicolor
  • As in polychromic : adj multicolor
  • As in polychromous : adj multicolor
  • As in varicolored : adj multicolor
  • As in versicolor : adj multicolor
  • As in versicolored : adj multicolor
  • As in dappled : adj mottled, freckled
Example sentences :
  • "It was a good hostel, that of the 'Pied Merlin,'" he remarked.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The music of the pied piper was still in his ears; twisting his brain.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • He wanted to go out and get pied; but when I told him about his boy, he begun to cry.
  • Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1920 » by Various
  • We had told our two boatmen to pull us out to the Pied Witch!
  • Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
  • The Himalayan pied kingfisher (Ceryle lugubris) is a bird as large as a crow.
  • Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar
  • He is somewhat larger than a blackbird, and pied like a magpie.
  • Extract from : « My First Voyage to Southern Seas » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • So they had to come, the arrogant Americans; they had to swarm like rats to the pied piper.
  • Extract from : « Ghetto Comedies » by Israel Zangwill
  • He would have fiddled the children of Hamelin away from the Pied Piper.
  • Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke
  • On its way to the standing-galley Tilbury's notice got pied.
  • Extract from : « The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories » by Mark Twain
  • Its pied plumage is very pretty, but its note is a melancholy one.
  • Extract from : « Expedition into Central Australia » by Charles Sturt

Synonyms for pied

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