name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
falconer
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈfɒl.kən.ə(ɹ)/
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UK: /ˈfɔːk.nə(ɹ)/
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US: /ˈfælkənɚ/
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name
Meaning 2
A village in the town of Ellicott, Chautauqua County, New York, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
A locality in the Armidale council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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noun
Meaning 4
A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
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noun
Meaning 6
a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hawker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hunter, huntsman
History
Etymology
From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: falconer — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Dutch: valkenier — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Finnish: haukankasvattaja — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Finnish: haukkametsästäjä — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- French: fauconnier — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Georgian: ბაზიერი (bazieri) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- German: Falkner — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Greek: γερακάρης (gerakáris) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Hebrew: בַּזְיָר (bazyár) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Hungarian: solymász — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Hungarian: solymár — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Italian: falconiere — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Kazakh: құсбегі (qūsbegı) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Macedonian: сокола́р (sokolár) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Manx: shawkeyr — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Occitan: falconièr — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Polish: sokolnik — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Portuguese: falcoeiro — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Romanian: șoimar — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Russian: соко́льник (sokólʹnik) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Russian: соко́льничий (sokólʹničij) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Spanish: halconero — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Spanish: halconera — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Ottoman Turkish: طوغانجی (doğancı) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Ottoman Turkish: چاقرجی (çakırcı) — a person who breeds or trains hawks
- Finnish: haukkametsästyksen seuraaja — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
- German: Falkner — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
- Italian: falconiere — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
- Macedonian: сокола́р (sokolár) — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
- Spanish: cetrero — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
- Spanish: cetrera — one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks
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