/ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/
Translation
A farm bird that people keep for its eggs and its meat.
Word origin
From Old English cicen, meaning a young bird or chick.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- cicen
Grammar
Examples
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"Chicken" is one farm bird.
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"Chickens" is the plural, meaning more than one chicken.
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Here "chicken" means the meat from the bird.
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