Synonyms for Canary
kəˈnɛər ica·na·ry

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1. fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canarynoun

   someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police

   Synonyms:
   fink, stool pigeon, pilferer, canary bird, sneak, stoolie, canary, tennis shoe, canary yellow, stalker, sneaker, stoolpigeon, sneak thief, snitch, prowler, snitcher, gym shoe

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

2. canarynoun

   a female singer

   Synonyms:
   canary bird, stoolpigeon, canary yellow, snitch, stool pigeon, sneaker, snitcher, fink, stoolie, sneak

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

3. canary yellow, canarynoun

   a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge

   Synonyms:
   canary bird, canary, stoolpigeon, canary yellow, snitch, stool pigeon, sneaker, snitcher, fink, stoolie, sneak

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

4. canary, canary birdadjective

   any of several small Old World finches

   Synonyms:
   canary bird, canary, stoolpigeon, canary yellow, snitch, stool pigeon, sneaker, snitcher, fink, stoolie, sneak

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

5. canary, canary-yellowadjective

   having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

   Synonyms:
   canary, canary-yellow

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

Matched Categories

1. • Informer
   • Singer

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1. List of paraphrases for "canary":

   canaries, canari, canarie, canarias, canaris, canarian, birdseed, dandelion, canario, canaria

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How to use Canary in a sentence?

1. Juan Molas:

   It's clear that some tourists will now change Tunisia for continental Spain or the Canary Islands, but they will have to pay more.

2. Venus Herrick:

   This was a needle-in-a-haystack search with no guarantee that the needle exists, finding a change that could be clearly confirmed as real was absolutely a surprise. We were pretty certain that Venus is volcanically active, but we didn’t know if eruptions occur every few months, years, once every 10,000 years, or longer. All options could have fit with existing data. Unless we got incredibly lucky, we now know the frequency is every few months or so, similar to the family of Earth’s big basaltic intraplate volcanoes like Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, etc.

3. Jerry Kilgore:

   Virginia was always the canary in the coal mine, we were that state that signaled to the rest of the country what the midterms were going to be like.

4. Phil Murphy:

   [ New York's the ] canary in the coal mine.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   The bottom line is, when you left that meeting, you thought, 'What country am I living in? Is this the United States of America?' I fear that Flint is the canary in the coal mine here.