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fawkner

fawkner noun: a falconer.

Noun

fawkner (plural fawkners)

  1. (obsolete) A falconer.
    • And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.a. 1631, John Donne, "Loves Diet" Now negligent of sports I lye, And now as other Fawkners use, I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe

Proper noun capitalized: Fawkner

Fawkner

  1. A suburb of Melbourne in the City of Merri-bek and the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia

Forms of fawkner

pluralfawkners

Origin of fawkner

See falconer.

Questions about fawkner

What does fawkner mean?
Fawkner means a falconer.
What part of speech is fawkner?
Fawkner can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fawkner?
The plural of fawkner is fawkners.

Words near fawkner in the dictionary

  1. Fawfieldhead
  2. fawk
  3. Fawkes
  4. Fawkeses
  5. Fawkham
  6. fawkner
  7. fawkners
  8. Fawley
  9. Fawleys
  10. Fawlty
  11. fawn

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