Synonyms for hawk

Grammar : Noun

Spell : hawk

Phonetic Transcription : hɔk

Définition of hawk

Origin : c.1300, hauk, earlier havek (c.1200), from Old English hafoc (W. Saxon), heafuc (Mercian), heafoc, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (cf. Old Norse haukr, Old Saxon habuc, Middle Dutch havik, Old High German habuh, German Habicht "hawk"), from a root meaning "to seize," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (cf. Russian kobec "a kind of falcon;" see capable). Transferred sense of "militarist" attested from 1962.

noun a warlike person

Example sentences :

Then if they do not sell I will hawk them from door to door.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

Come, man, you must be as hungry as a hawk—a slice of the beef?
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A hawk, driving down out of the blue, had barely missed him.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

It was the same when he challenged the hawk down out of the sky.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Later, when he had grown more formidable, he wanted to eat the hawk.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

"Here—or no," the Hawk muttered to himself, though a dozen could hear him.
Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore

Did it mean what it would appear to—that he, the Hawk, was expected?
Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore

To her, who took no sides, there was every bit as much to be said for the hawk as for the chaffinch.
Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame

And another god of theirs had the head of a hawk—the bird, you know.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

I heard at the station that a lady and gentleman had gone to the Hawk and Heron.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

Antonyms for hawk

Dove

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