🇬🇧🇪🇸 poultry - aves de corral : English Lesson

Meaning of "poultry" ("aves de corral"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Poultry means farm birds, like chickens, ducks, and turkeys, that people raise to get eggs and meat. These birds usually live in coops or barns instead of in the wild, and farmers take care of them by feeding them and keeping them safe.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My little brother tried to teach the poultry math, but the chickens only cared about their snacks.

Dad said we were getting “a few” poultry, and now our yard sounds like a squawking rock concert every morning.

When the wind blew, the poultry looked like they were doing a dramatic slow-motion shampoo commercial.

The poultry on the farm acts like an alarm clock that never heard of the snooze button.

Our art project was to make a poster about poultry, but mine turned into a superhero comic called “Captain Chicken and the League of Ducks.”

At dawn she opened the coop; poultry shuffled, wings trembling, pecking corn. The child gathered warm eggs from the poultry nest and held a poultry chick close. A fox slipped near; the poultry alarmed and pressed together. She drove the fox off; the poultry settled. They slept safe while she counted eggs and smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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