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Meaning of "ortolan" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ORTOLAN

Via French from Latin hortulānus, from hortulus, diminutive of hortus garden.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ORTOLAN

ˈɔːtələn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ORTOLAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ortolan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ORTOLAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ortolan

Ortolan may refer to: ▪ Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan, a French jurist ▪ L'Ortolan, a gourmet restaurant in the village of Shinfield, Berkshire, England ▪ Marcel Augusto Ortolan, a Brazilian footballer ▪ Ortolan, an alien race in Star Wars ▪ Ortolan Bunting,, a bird in the bunting family Emberizidae considered a delicacy in France. ▪ USS Ortolan, a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy in naming its ships ▪ USS Ortolan , a Lapwing-class minesweeper in the United States Navy ▪ USS Ortolan earned four battle stars during World War II ▪ USS Ortolan , a twin-hulled submarine rescue ship...

Definition of ortolan in the English dictionary

The definition of ortolan in the dictionary is Also called: ortolan bunting. a brownish Old World bunting, Emberiza hortulana, regarded as a delicacy. Other definition of ortolan is any of various other small birds eaten as delicacies, esp the bobolink.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ORTOLAN

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ORTOLAN

orthostichous · orthostichy · orthotic · orthotics · orthotist · orthotone · orthotonic · orthotopic · orthotropic · orthotropism · orthotropous · orthotropy · orthovanadic · orthovanadic acid · orthros · Ortler · Ortles · ortolan bunting · Orton · orts

WORDS THAT END LIKE ORTOLAN

Angolan · business plan · Catalan · clan · doolan · floor plan · Guatemalan · hallan · jambolan · Klan · Macmillan · Magellan · McMillan · Milan · Nolan · plan · portolan · prolan · solan · tolan

Synonyms and antonyms of ortolan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ortolan» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ORTOLAN

Find out the translation of ortolan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ortolan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ortolan» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

ortolan
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hortelano
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ortolan
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

ओटलन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ortolan
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

садовая овсянка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

ortolan
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ortolan
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ortolan
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ortolan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Ortolan
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ortolan
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

ortolan
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ortolan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giống chim họa mi
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ortolan
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Ortolan
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ortolan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ortolano
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ortolan
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

садова вівсянка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

ortolan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βλάχος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ORTOLAN
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ortolan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Ortolan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ortolan

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ORTOLAN»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of ortolan
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ortolan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORTOLAN»

Discover the use of ortolan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ortolan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian, Including ...
The final edition of Ortolan's Explication Historique des Instituts de Justinien (1873) is a vast three-volume work containing a history of Roman law, a treatise on Roman jurisprudence and a complete commentary on the Institutes, the ...
Thomas Lambert Mears, 1876
2
A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe
Size and shape close to Ortolan but with rather longer tail. Male pule brownish- grey, with bluish-pink bill, yellow face, eye-ring and throat shading into ash-grey nape and upper breast, huffish covert- and tertial-edges. whitish under-parts and  ...
Roger Tory Peterson, Guy Mountfort, P. A. D. Hollum, 2001
3
Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On ...
(AACC 1945:108) ortolan ortolan n obs Any of the small ground-doves. (< Fr/Eng ortolan, a small bird considered a delicacy, usu. Emberiza hortulana) = blue ortolan, blue partridge dove, >ortolan bleu (Claravis pretiosa); brown dove, > ground ...
Lise Winer, 2009
4
They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic ...
He dined on oysters, foie gras, capons, and finally, L'Ortolan, a legendary French delicacy regarded the height of culinary bliss, but now banned in its native land. An ortolan is a small, yellow-green songbird—a particular kind of bunting, ...
Jonathan Deutsch Ph.D., Natalya Murakhver, 2012
5
The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Iltudus Thomas Prichard, David Nasmith, Joseph-Louis-Elzear Ortolan, 2010
6
Buntings and Sparrows
Mantle slightly ruddier than in Ortolan Bunting (14), and belly deeper rufous- brown. Rump unstreaked rufous-brown. Adult female breeding Crown tinged brown, finely streaked dark, the demarcation between nape and mantle less prominent ...
Clive Byers, Urban Olsson, Jon Curson, 2013
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Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, ...
Emberiza caesia 15cm, 6” Like Ortolan in all plumages but slightly smaller with whitish eye-ring and pink bill. Adult male has blue-grey head (with no olive wash) , and rufous-cinnamon throat and submoustachial. Female is duller and similar to  ...
Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe, 2009
8
Birds of Iceland: Ortolan Bunting, Mandarin Duck, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
9
Birds of Afric: Ostrich, Ortolan Bunting, Blue Crane, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 346.
Source: Wikipedia, 2011
10
Ceremonial Food and Drink: Eucharist, Ortolan Bunting, Kava, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ORTOLAN»

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The Sun Inn at Dummer crowns former BCoT student as MasterChef
Gordon presented Stephen with a certificate, a top of the range chef's knife set, and a meal for two at the Michelin-starred L'Ortolan restaurant, in Shinfield, near ... «Basingstoke Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Chef's Dish: Lesley Draper talks to Matt Duggan-Jones
And that's at least partly down to head chef Matt Duggan-Jones, whose pedigree includes top restaurants such as Michelin-starred L'Ortolan in ... «Sheffield Telegraph, Jul 15»
3
Growing culinary delights
Andy had worked as a chef in Sydney for 11 years at restaurants including Otto, Bistro Ortolan and Fuel Bistro. Then, three years ago, he and ... «The Land Newspaper, Jul 15»
4
Phil Specht continues quest to understand bobolinks
Bobolinks -- also known as reedbird, ricebird, ortolan and maybird -- travel great distances each year. "The bobolink is one of the world's most ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»
5
Spare us the description: really good food can speak for itself
The thing is, though, that most of us aren't daily falling out of the Savoy Grill – and so we drown in the verbosity, like an ortolan in verbal cognac. «The Independent, Jul 15»
6
Here comes everyone! The monster avatar taking over Manchester
The ortolan, before you ask, is a small bunting which, drowned alive in armagnac then roasted, is a French gourmand's illicit pleasure, and ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Anritsu and Bluetest Continues Collaboration
Anritsu's wireless specialist Francois Ortolan said, “For us it was obvious that we needed to provide Bluetest with access to the MT8821C to ... «TeleAnalysis, Jul 15»
8
Reading chef Tom Clarke from l'ortolan gives us serious food envy …
Tom Clarke, head chef at Reading's Michelin star restaurant l'ortolan, has been making us weep into our ham sandwiches and quinoa salads ... «getreading, Jul 15»
9
Hannibal's food styling scenes will be missed
In fact, they are food snuff porn, since along with the duxelles and the roasted ortolan and the late harvest Vidal sauce, Hannibal is usually ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jun 15»
10
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In fact, they are food snuff porn, since along with the duxelles and the roasted ortolan and the late harvest Vidal sauce, Hannibal is usually ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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