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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A surname.
A surname from Spanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
A surname, from Native Indigenous Amerindian languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Magoffin County, Kentucky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Quitman County, Mississippi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cumberland County and Sampson County, North Carolina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McNairy County, Tennessee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place name:
A suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any bird of prey of the subfamilies Falconinae and Herpetotherinae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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noun
A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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verb
To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hawk
Narrower terms: peregrine, peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus, gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, Falco rusticolus, kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, sparrow hawk, American kestrel, Falco sparverius, pigeon hawk, merlin, Falco columbarius, hobby, Falco subbuteo, caracara
verb
hunt with falcons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hunt, run, hunt down, track down
History
* From Spanish Falcón * Calque from Amerindian languages, for the bird falcon.
Inherited 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.
Across languages
154 source translations are retained for this English entry.
