Falcon
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
- 2 diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight wordnet
- 3 Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
- 4 A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
- 5 A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century. historical
- 1 To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
"He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle."
- 2 hunt with falcons wordnet
- 1 A surname.; A surname from Spanish. countable, uncountable
- 2 A surname.; A surname, from Native Indigenous Amerindian languages. countable, uncountable
- 3 A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado. countable, uncountable
- 4 A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky. countable, uncountable
- 5 A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Quitman County, Mississippi. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Cumberland County and Sampson County, North Carolina. countable, uncountable
- 7 A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in McNairy County, Tennessee. countable, uncountable
- 8 A place name:; A suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"A smart falcon hides its talons."
Etymology
From Middle English faucoun, falcon, faulcon, from Old French falcun, from Late Latin falcō (“falcon”), of Germanic origin, probably via Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”). Cognates Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”), Dutch valk (“falcon, hawk”), German Falke (“falcon, hawk”), Norwegian and Swedish falk (“falcon”), Icelandic fálki (“falcon”), French faucon (“falcon”), Italian falco (“falcon”), Spanish halcón (“falcon”), Portuguese falcão (“falcon”), Latin falco (“falcon”), Lithuanian pálšas (“pale”), Latvian bāls (“pale”), Latgalian buolgs (“pale”). More at fallow.
* From Spanish Falcón * Calque from Amerindian languages, for the bird falcon.
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