Plural of hawk
regular plural
The plural of hawk is hawks.
Forms of hawk
| Singular | hawk /ˈhɔːk/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | hawks |
| Countable | countable |
Hawks in a sentence
- It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
- “Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles.2012 October 11 [1962], Michael Dobbs, quoting McGeorge Bundy, “The original hawks and doves”, in Foreign Policy
- I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.From the entry osmosis
- My editorial angered both the jingoistic war hawks and the anti-war protesters.From the entry jingoistic
- Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.From the entry passage
Meaning of hawk
- noun A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
- noun Any diurnal predatory terrestrial bird of similar size and appearance to the accipitrid hawks, such as a falcon.
- noun Any of various species of dragonfly of the genera Apocordulia and Austrocordulia, endemic to Australia.
Questions about the plural of hawk
- What is the plural of hawk?
- The plural of hawk is hawks.
- Is hawk countable?
- Hawk is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hawk (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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