Definition of POULTRY

poultry

Plural: poultries

Noun

  • Domestic fowls kept for their eggs or meat.
  • a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
  • flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food
  • Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).
  • The meat from a domestic fowl.

Examples

  • a poultry farmer
  • He sorted his letters like a farmer tending his POULTRY, looking for the prize-winning word.
  • the poultry counter

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”).
For the development of Middle English /u/ to modern /oʊ/, /əʊ/ before /lt/, /ld/, /ln/, compare boult, boulder, colter/coulter, poultice, shoulder, won't.

Synonyms

domestic fowl, fowl

Scrabble Score: 12

poultry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
poultry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
poultry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

poultry: valid Words With Friends Word