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falk

falk noun: the razorbill.

Noun

falk (plural falks)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) The razorbill.

Proper noun capitalized: Falk

Falk (countable and uncountable, plural Falks)

  1. A surname.
    • They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287
    1. A surname from Danish.
    2. A surname from German.
    3. A surname from Norwegian.
    4. A surname from Swedish.
    5. A surname from Yiddish.
      • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are an “epic tag team,” says foreign policy adviser Ophir Falk in a short conversation with The Jerusalem Post.2026 March 5, Zvika Klein, “Netanyahu adviser to 'Post': Best way to remove ayatollah threat is to remove ayatollahs”, in The Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2026
  2. A ghost town and former logging settlement in Humboldt County, California, United States.
  3. A township in Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.

Forms of falk

Noun
pluralfalks
alternative formfalc
alternative formfaik
Proper noun
pluralFalks

Origin of falk

* As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/North Germanic surname, from German Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן (falkan), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk. * As an English surname, variant of Faulks.

Questions about falk

What does falk mean?
Falk means the razorbill.
What part of speech is falk?
Falk can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of falk?
The plural of falk is falks.

Words near falk in the dictionary

  1. Faliscan
  2. Faliscans
  3. Falisci
  4. Falivene
  5. Falizan
  6. falk
  7. Falk. Is.
  8. Falkenberg
  9. Falkener
  10. Falkensee
  11. Falkenstein

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