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fowls

/faʊlz/

fowls is the plural of fowl.

fowls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fowl.

Meaning of fowl

Noun

fowl (plural fowl or fowls)

  1. (archaic) Any bird.
    • And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII
  2. A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

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Questions about fowls

What is fowls the plural of?
Fowls is the plural of fowl.
How do you pronounce fowls?
Fowls is pronounced /faʊlz/.

Words near fowls in the dictionary

  1. fowlkind
  2. fowllike
  3. fowlpox
  4. fowlpoxvirus
  5. fowlpoxviruses
  6. fowls
  7. fowlyard
  8. fowlyards
  9. Fownes
  10. Fowneses
  11. Fownhope

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