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# wren

«wren» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tiny brown bird with a short tail that sticks up; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wren, wrens)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wren is a tiny brown bird with a short tail that sticks up; it has a very loud song for its size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#m1)

2) (a name) Wren is also a family name, as in Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons and bird watches in the UK and Ireland, the wren is one of the commonest birds; it hops in hedges and eats insects and spiders. In history and art lessons, Christopher Wren rebuilt many London churches after the Great Fire of London. In Irish tradition, Wren Day (St Stephen's Day) has the "wren boys" who go door to door in costumes. Phrases: «a jenny wren», «wren's nest», «Christopher Wren».

### examples

- A wren was singing loudly from the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x1)
- The wren is tiny but very loud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x2)
- Wrens build round nests with a hole in the side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x3)
- Christopher Wren designed St Paul's Cathedral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x4)
- The wren's tail sticks straight up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x5)
- In Ireland, the wren boys dress up on St Stephen's Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x6)
- "Will you take me?" said the wren. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/#x7)

### note

Silent w: say it "ren". Plural «wrens». Capital W when it is a name. In North America there are other kinds of wrens, such as the house wren and the Carolina wren.

### In the corpora

- [The tiny wren has one of the loudest songs for its size, which carries through thick bushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/15/)
- [Wren in Bristol has two mums.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/16/)
- [Wren's friend adds that peoples without writing had no laws, just chaos.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/63-writing-laws-and-money-how-strangers-learned-to-trust-each-other/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wren» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wren/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.