• (British) IPA: /ˈɹɒb.ɪn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹɑb.ɪn/

robin (plural robins)

1. Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
   1. A European robin, Erithacus rubecula.
   2. An American robin, Turdus migratorius.
2. (historical) A trimming in front of a dress.

• (all senses) redbreast, robin redbreast
• (the European robin) ruddock

• robin redbreast

• French: grive
• Portuguese: tordo

• French: rouge-gorge, rouge-gorge familier
• German: Rotkehlchen
• Italian: pettirosso
• Portuguese: pisco-de-peito-ruivo
• Russian: заря́нка
• Spanish: petirrojo

• French: merle d'Amérique
• German: Wanderdrossel
• Portuguese: tordo americano
• Russian: странству́ющий дрозд

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɹɒbɪn/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹɑbɪn/

1. A male given name.
   • c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     , Scene 1:

     They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.

   • 1785, Robert Burns, Rantin', Rovin' Robin:

     This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.

   • 1991, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, Jonathan Cape ISBN 0224031570, page 12:

     Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do something about it, wouldn't you? Change your name by deed-poll to Samson, or Goliath, or something.

2. A female given name, also associated with the bird robin.
   • 1949, Adela Rogers St. John, Never Again, and Other Stories (Doubleday 1949), page 25:

     "We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.

3. (rare compared to given name) Surname

• French: Robin
• German: Robin
• Russian: Ро́бин

robin (plural robins)

1. (soccer) Someone connected with any number of sports teams known as the Robins, as a fan, player, coach, etc.