Other forms: robins
A robin is a small garden bird with a bright red breast. A robin on the fence, the robin's song, a Christmas robin.
The European robin is fiercely territorial and will attack another robin over a patch of a few hundred square metres — the friendliness towards gardeners is about the digging rather than about people. It appears on Christmas cards because Victorian postmen wore red and were nicknamed robins. The American robin is a much larger and unrelated thrush that got the name for its colour.
1nounrobinA small garden bird with a red breast.
“A robin hopped along the fence, waiting for me to dig up some worms.”
robin is a bird.
Robin is short for robin redbreast, from the personal name Robin, a diminutive of Robert. English once gave birds first names — jenny wren and jackdaw are the same habit.
Middle English
robynet
English, today
robin
Built from
Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA