GO THE WAY OF THE DODO

Meaning of GO THE WAY OF THE DODO in English

become extinct like the dodo bird, die off

If we don't protect our language, it will go the way of the dodo.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

GO THE WAY OF THE DODO — become extinct like the dodo bird, die off If we don't protect our language, it will go the way of …
English Idioms vocab
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WAY — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a haphazard way/manner/fashion ▪ I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DODO — dronte
English interlingue dictionary
DODO — noun (plural ~es or ~s) Etymology: Portuguese doudo, from doudo silly, stupid Date: 1628 1. an extinct heavy flightless bird …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DODO — Extinct flightless bird ( Raphus cucullatus ) of Mauritius, first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507. Humans and the animals …
Английский словарь Британика
WAY — I. ˈwā noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English way, wey, from Old English weg; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GO — I. (|)gō, when followed without pause by a stressed syllable sometimes _gə or +V _gəw verb ( went (|)went ; …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DODO — ˈdō(ˌ)dō noun ( plural dodoes or dodos ) Etymology: Portuguese doudo, from doudo silly, stupid 1. a. : a large …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DODO — (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those …
Английский словарь Webster
DODO — ( n. ) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WAY — way 1 — wayless , adj. /way/ , n. 1. manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DODO — — dodoism , n. /doh"doh/ , n. , pl. dodos, dodoes . 1. any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DODO — n. any of several species of flightless birds that inhabited the islands off the southeastern coast of Africa (now extinct); …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WAY — I. ˈwā noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weg; akin to Old High German weg way, Old English wegan …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GO — I. ˈgō verb ( went ˈwent ; gone ˈgȯn also ˈgän ; go·ing ˈgō-iŋ, ˈgȯ(-)iŋ; “gȯing to” in sense 13 …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DODO — noun ( plural dodoes or dodos ) Etymology: Portuguese doudo, from doudo silly, stupid Date: 1628 1. a. : an …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GO — noun a glass of spirits. 2. go ·noun act; working; operation. 3. go ·p.p. gone. 4. go ·noun noisy merriment; …
Webster English vocab
DODO — noun a large, extinct bird (didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the island of mauritius. it had short, half-fledged wings, like those …
Webster English vocab
DODO — [ 'dəʊdəʊ ] ■ noun ( plural ~s or ~es ) a large extinct flightless bird found on Mauritius until …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WAY — [way] n [ME, fr. OE weg; akin to OHG weg way, OE wegan to move, L vehere to carry, via …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GO — [go] vb went ; gone ; go.ing ; goes [ME gon, fr. OE gan; akin to OHG gan to go, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DODO — [do.do] n, pl dodoes or dodos [Pg doudo, fr. doudo silly, stupid] (1628) 1 a: an extinct heavy flightless bird …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Britannica English vocabulary
DODO — dodo BrE AmE ˈdəʊd əʊ AmE ˈdoʊd oʊ ▷ dodo|es, ~s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WAY — / weɪ; NAmE / noun , adverb ■ noun METHOD / STYLE 1. [ C ] way (to do sth) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GO — / gəʊ; NAmE goʊ/ verb , noun ■ verb ( goes / gəʊz; NAmE goʊz/ went / went; NAmE / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DODO — / ˈdəʊdəʊ; NAmE ˈdoʊdoʊ/ noun ( pl. -os ) 1. a large bird that could not fly and that is …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DODO — do ‧ do /ˈdəʊdəʊ $ ˈdoʊdoʊ/ BrE AmE noun ( plural dodos ) [countable] [ Date: 1600-1700 ; Language: Portuguese …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WAY — n. & adv. --n. 1 a road, track, path, etc., for passing along. 2 a course or route for reaching …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
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Английский основной разговорный словарь
DODO — n. (pl. -os or -oes) 1 any large flightless bird of the extinct family Raphidae, formerly native to Mauritius. 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WAY — n. & adv. n. 1 a road, track, path, etc., for passing along. 2 a course or route for reaching …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DODO — n. (pl. -os or -oes) 1 any large flightless bird of the extinct family Raphidae, formerly native to Mauritius. 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WAY — n. & adv. --n. 1. a road, track, path, etc., for passing along. 2 a course or route for reaching …
Oxford English vocab
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Oxford English vocab
DODO — n. (pl. -os or -oes) 1. any large flightless bird of the extinct family Raphidae, formerly native to Mauritius. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WAY — ( ways) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you refer to …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DODO — ( dodos, or dodoes) 1. A dodo was a very large bird that was unable to fly. Dodos are now …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DODO — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dead ▪ I wrote back, Paz said, I told him, Dada dead as dodo …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DODO — n. Extinct flightless bird ( Raphus cucullatus ) of Mauritius, first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507. Humans and the …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WAY — See ↑ DIRECTION 1, ↑ WAY 1,7,9 ◆◆◆ • ↑ a fair way/quite a way/a good way • ↑ a …
Longman Activator English vocab
WAY — INDEX: a way of doing something 1. a way or method of doing something 2. the correct way of doing …
Longman Activator English vocab
GO — n. 25B6; verb he's gone into town : MOVE, proceed, make one's way, advance, progress, pass; walk, travel, journey; poetic/literary …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
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Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
DODO — See go the way of the dodo
English Idioms vocabulary
DODO — (loving). â A man of Bethlehem, father of Elhanan, who was one of David's thirty captains. (2 Samuel 23:24; 1 …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DODO — сущ. 1) дронт (вымершая птица отряда голубеобразных, обитавших на островах Индийского океана и истребленные в XVII - XVIII в.в. Завезенными …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DODO — n ( pl -oes, -os -ʹdəʋdəʋz ) 1. палеонт. дронт ( Didus ineptus ) 2. разг. тупица; косный человек 3. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WAY — 1) дорога 2) путевой 3) путь 4) способ 5) средство 6) трасса • all the way to — вплоть apex of the sun's way — астрон. апекс движения …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
WAY — way сущ.1) путь; дорога This door is the only way out of the room. — Эта дверь - единственный путь …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
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Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
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English Idioms vocabulary

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