Antonyms for hawk


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hawk
Phonetic Transcription : hɔk


Definition 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

Synonyms for hawk

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