Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whistler

5 senses of whistler

Sense 1
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- (United States painter (1834-1903))
       INSTANCE OF=> painter -- (an artist who paints)

Sense 2
whistler -- (someone who makes a loud high sound)
       => signaler, signaller -- (someone who communicates by signals)

Sense 3
hoary marmot, whistler, whistling marmot, Marmota caligata -- (large North American mountain marmot)
       => marmot -- (stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter)

Sense 4
goldeneye, whistler, Bucephela clangula -- (large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions)
       => duck -- (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Sense 5
thickhead, whistler -- (Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call)
       => Old World flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher -- (any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing)