falconer

[ fawl-kuh-ner, fal-, faw-kuh- ]

noun

1. a person who hunts with falcons or follows the sport of hawking.
2. a person who trains hawks for hunting.

ˈfalconer

/ ˈfɔːkə-; ˈfɔːlkənə /

noun

1. a person who breeds or trains hawks or who follows the sport of falconry

Other Words From

• under·falcon·er noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of falconer¹

1350–1400; Middle English falkenar (< Medieval Latin falcōnārius ), fauconer < Anglo-French; Old French fauconier < Medieval Latin; falcon, -er ²

Example Sentences

Central Park was a “target-rich environment,” in the words of James Eyring, a falconer and a retired Pace University environmental sciences professor.

From Seattle Times

Highland falconers are training two Maremma sheep dogs to look out for the large birds of prey in the sky.

From BBC

Courtier Robert Cheseman, Henry VIII’s falconer, gives the same look in a 1533 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, one of several magnificent Holbeins on view in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.”

From Washington Post

GPS tracking devices also help falconers avoid losing their birds: The best racing falcons are worth millions of dollars.

From New York Times

Unlike many other falconers, they did not plan to enter their birds into the large hawking competition that takes place in Qatar each January.

From New York Times