Lark

Noun

 * 1) Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
 * 2) Any of various resembling birds, usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark
 * 3) One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.

Synonyms

 * early bird, early riser

Related terms

 * happy as a lark
 * larker
 * larkspur, plant
 * skylark, the bird

Noun

 * 1) A romp, frolic, some fun.
 * 2) A prank.

Synonyms

 * whim, especially in phrase on a whim

Derived terms

 * on a lark

Verb

 * 1) To sport, engage in harmless pranking
 * 2) To frolic, engage in carefree adventure

Adjectives for Lark
veritable; merry: late; full-throated; mounting; morning; winging.

Verbs for Lark
—carols; —chants; —chimes;—chirrups; — circles; —composes; —s congregate; — flock; —heralds the dawn; —improvises; — instills; —molts; —ravishes; —sharps; — showers melody; —shrills; —slurs; — sprinkles notes; —squats; —startles; — strains; —trills; —whistles.

Thesaurus
Philomel, adventure, antic, bat, bender, binge, bout, bulbul, bust, canary, caper, carousal, carouse, cavort, celebrate, celebration, cuckoo, cut loose, debauch, drinking bout, eagle, escapade, feathered songster, fling, frolic, gambol, game, hell around, horseplay, jape, jollify, jolly, let go, let loose, let off steam, make merry, make whoopee, mavis, mischief, mockingbird, monkeyshine, nightingale, orgy, oriole, play, ploy, practical joke, prank, raise hell, randan, randy, revel, ringdove, rocket, roister, rollick, romp, see life, shenanigan, shenanigans, shines, singing bird, skylark, skyrocket, song sparrow, songbird, songster, sport, spree, step out, tear, thrush, tomfoolery, toot, trick, wanton, warbler, whoop it up, wingding

Etymology 1
From larke:, lavrack:, from  lawerce:, from. Cognate with Dutch leeuwerik:, German Lerche:, Old Norse lævirik:.

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain, either
 * from (notably northern) English dialect lake:/laik: (c.1300, from leika:), with intrusive -r- common in southern British dialect; or
 * shortening of skylark: (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel:.

Noun

 * Albanian: lauresha
 * Arabic: قبرة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: жаваранак
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: alc'hweder
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: alosa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 雲雀, 云雀
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lærke
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: lőoke
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: ,
 * Galician: laverca
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lævirki
 * Irish: fuiseog, circín starraiceach
 * Italian: allòdola, lòdola, allodola
 * Japanese: 雲雀
 * Korean: 종다리, 노고지리
 * Kurdish: کڵاوکوره‌
 * Ladino:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: cīrulis


 * Lithuanian: vieversys, vyturys
 * Low Saxon: Levark, Lauerk, Levalk, Lark, Leerk, Lierk, Lurk
 * Macedonian: чучулига
 * Maltese: alwetta
 * Northern Sami:
 * Occitan: alauseta
 * Old English: laferce
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: cotovia
 * Romani: ,
 * Romanian: ciocârlie, ciocârlii
 * Romansch: lodola
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: allòdola
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uiseag
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: шева, шевpљугa
 * Roman: ševa, ševrljuga
 * Slovak: škovránok
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: škowrončk
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lärka
 * Ukrainian: жайворонок польовий
 * Volapük:,  hilaud,  jilaud,  laudül,  hilaudül,  jilaudül
 * Welsh: ehedydd


 * Dutch: vroege vogel
 * Finnish:
 * French: lève-tôt
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: mattiniero
 * Lithuanian: vyturys, vyturys
 * Romanian: persoană matinală
 * Swedish: lärka

Noun

 * Dutch: gedol


 * Russian:


 * Dutch: vlerkenstreek


 * Russian: ,

Verb

 * Dutch:


 * Bosnian: šala f s
 * Finnish: pilailla, kujeilla, kuje, pila, hullutus


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: шала f s
 * Roman: šala f s

Anagrams

 * Karl