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# falcon

«falcon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fast bird of prey with long pointed wings and a hooked…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a falcon, falcons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A falcon is a fast bird of prey with long pointed wings and a hooked beak that catches other birds and small animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#m1)

2) The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth when it dives through the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#m2)

3) In folk tales, a falcon can be an enchanted person who changes shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons falcons come up in food chains, adaptations (sharp eyesight, curved talons, streamlined bodies) and conservation: peregrine falcons nearly died out because of pesticides and have since come back, and now even nest on city skyscrapers and cathedrals. In history lessons, falconry was a sport of kings and nobles, training falcons to hunt. Falcons are also national symbols for some countries.

### examples

- The peregrine falcon dived at amazing speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x1)
- Falcons have sharp talons to catch their prey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x2)
- A falcon nests on the tower of our cathedral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x3)
- In the Middle Ages, nobles hunted with trained falcons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x4)
- The falcon hovered and then swooped down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x5)
- Falcons can see a mouse from high in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x6)
- We watched the falcon show at the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x7)
- The Falcon smote upon the ground, became a brave youth, and said: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/#x8)

### note

Plural «falcons». Say «FAL-kun» or «FAWL-kun». Falcons, hawks and eagles are all birds of prey but different groups. «Falconry» is training falcons to hunt; «falconer» is the person.

### In the corpora

- [In a steep dive a peregrine falcon can go over 300 kilometres an hour, the fastest of any animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/9/)
- [In 1971 the astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a falcon feather on the Moon, and they landed together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/16/)
- [and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.268/)
- [and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.414/)
- [That path no bird of prey knoweth, neither hath the falcon's eye seen it;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.700/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «falcon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falcon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.