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falconry

/ˈfɔːl.kən.ɹi/

falconry noun: the sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.

Noun

falconry (countable and uncountable, plural falconries)

  1. The sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
    • ...looking up, I observed a very slight and graceful hawk, like a night-hawk, alternately soaring like a ripple and tumbling a rod or two over and over, showing the underside of its wings, which gleamed like a satin ribbon in the sun, or like the pearly inside of a shell. This sight reminded me of...1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

falconry meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Persian

falconry in Hindi

sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
श्येनपालन śyenpālan

falconry in Urdu

باز سے شکار

falconry in Arabic

sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
صَقَارَة ṣaqāra

falconry in Persian

sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey
بازداری bâzdâri

Forms of falconry

pluralfalconries

Origin of falconry

From French fauconnerie.

Questions about falconry

What does falconry mean?
Falconry means the sport of hunting by using trained birds of prey, especially falcons and hawks.
What is falconry in Hindi?
Falconry in Hindi is श्येनपालन (śyenpālan). See Falconry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is falconry?
Falconry is a noun.
How do you pronounce falconry?
Falconry is pronounced /ˈfɔːl.kən.ɹi/.
What is the plural of falconry?
The plural of falconry is falconries.

Words near falconry in the dictionary

  1. falconish
  2. falconlike
  3. falconologist
  4. falconologists
  5. falconries
  6. falconry
  7. falcons
  8. Falconwood
  9. Falcos
  10. falcula
  11. falcular

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Adapted from Wiktionary: falconry (page history and authors); falconry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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