Meaning

2 senses

  1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.

    Falkner

    соко́льникsokólʹnik, соко́льничийsokólʹničij

    a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

  2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

    Falkner

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tom is a professional falconer.

    deTom ist von Beruf Falkner. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Are there falconers in Algeria?

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a person who breeds or trains hawks:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a person who breeds or trains hawks:

Origin

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

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Forms

plural: falconers
Singularfalconer
Pluralfalconers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
hawker
Close in meaning
  • a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry:hawker

Word family

3 related words
Relatedfalconryfalcon
Derivedunderfalconer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fakirfalafelfalconfallA2fallacyC2

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