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

4 senses of buffalo

Sense 1
American bison, American buffalo, buffalo, Bison bison -- (large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains)
       => bison -- (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)

Sense 2
Buffalo -- (a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls))
       INSTANCE OF=> city, metropolis, urban center -- (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city")

Sense 3
buffalo -- (meat from an American bison)
       => game -- (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)

Sense 4
Old World buffalo, buffalo -- (any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo)
       => bovid -- (hollow-horned ruminants)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb buffalo

1 sense of buffalo

Sense 1
buffalo -- (intimidate or overawe)
       => overawe, cow -- (subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats))