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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?l.k?n.?(?)/, /?f??k.n?(?)/, and similar variations
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fælk?n?/

Noun

falconer (plural falconers)

1. A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game.
2. One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.

Synonyms

• hawker

Related terms

• falconry

Translations

References

• falconer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Florance

Old French

Alternative forms

• fauconer (Anglo-Norman)
• fauconier
• fauconnier

Etymology

falcon +? -er.

Noun

falconer m (oblique plural falconers, nominative singular falconers, nominative plural falconer)

1. (Anglo-Norman) falconer (person who breeds or trains hawks)

Descendants

• ? English: falconer
• French: fauconnier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

Translations