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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Wren, Sir Christopher Wrennoun

    English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)

  2. wren, jenny wrennoun

    any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects

Wiktionary

  1. wrennoun

    Members of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae.

  2. wrennoun

    Small bird of similar appearance to a true wren.

  3. Etymology: Originally a nickname from wrenne.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wrennoun

    A small bird.

    Etymology: wrenna , Saxon.

    The poor wren,
    The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
    Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. William Shakespeare, Macb.

    All ages have conceived that the wren is the least of birds, yet the discoveries of America have shewed us one far less, the hum-bird not much exceeding a beetle. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

ChatGPT

  1. wren

    A wren is a small, often brownish bird native to the Americas, Europe, and Asia. They are typically characterized by their small size, short rounded wings, short tail, and a rather loud and often complex song. The family of wrens includes over 80 species.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wrennoun

    any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae

  2. Wrennoun

    any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits

  3. Etymology: [OE. wrenne, AS. wrenna, wrnna, perhaps akin to wrne lascivious.]

Wikidata

  1. Wren

    The wrens are mostly small, brownish passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae. There are approximately 80 species of true wrens in approximately 20 genera. Only the Eurasian Wren occurs in the Old World, where in Anglophone regions it is commonly known simply as the "wren" as it is the originator of the name. The name wren has been applied to other, unrelated birds, particularly the New Zealand wrens and the Australian wrens. Most wrens are small and rather inconspicuous, except for their loud and often complex songs. Notable exceptions are the relatively large members of the genus Campylorhynchus, which can be quite bold in their behavior. Wrens have short wings that are barred in most species, and they often hold their tails upright. As far as known, wrens are primarily insectivorous, eating insects, spiders, and other small arthropods, but many species also eat vegetable matter and some will take small frogs and lizards.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wren

    ren, n. a genus (Troglodytes) and family (Troglodytidæ) of birds, having a slender, slightly curved and pointed bill, the wings very short and rounded, the tail short and carried erect, the legs slender and rather long.—ns. Wren′ning, the stoning of a wren to death on St Stephen's Day, December 26th—Wrenning Day—once practised in the North Country; Wren′-tit, a Californian bird (Chamæa fasciata), of dubious relations, at once resembling the wren and the titmouse. [A.S. wrenna, wrǽnnawrǽne, lascivious.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WREN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wren is ranked #3220 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wren surname appeared 11,211 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 would have the surname Wren.

    75.9% or 8,517 total occurrences were White.
    18.1% or 2,029 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 270 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 246 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 80 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 70 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WREN in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WREN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of WREN in a Sentence

  1. William Henry Hudson:

    You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

  2. Cindy Chafian:

    He agreed to pay for a percentage of the event and I was to try and find someone to help with the funding gap, he connected me with Caroline M. Wren because there was somebody that Amy Kremer knew who wanted to help contribute to the event.

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