eagle
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)eagles
- any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flightSynonyms: bird of JoveType of bird of prey, raptorKinds harpy, bald eagle, tawny eagle, eaglet, sea eagle, golden eagleMember of Accipitridae, family Accipitridae
- (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a holeType of score
- a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollarsType of coin
- an emblem representing power“the Roman eagle”Type of emblem, allegory
Verb (2)eagles
- shoot two strokes under par“She eagled the hole”Synonyms: double birdieMore general shoot
- shoot in two strokes under parMore general score, tally
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Translations
Noun large bird of prey
- Spanish
- águila
- French
- aigle
- German
- Adler
- Italian
- aquila
- Portuguese
- águia
- Turkish
- kartal
- Russian
- орёл orjól
- Arabic
- عُقَاب ʕuqāb
- Chinese
- 老鹰 lǎoyīng
- Japanese
- ワシ washi
36 more languages
- Dutch
- adelaar
- Polish
- orzeł
- Swedish
- örn
- Greek
- αετός aetós
- Korean
- 독수리 doksuri
- Indonesian
- elang
- Vietnamese
- đại bàng
- Hungarian
- sas
- Portuguese (PT)
- águia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 老鷹 lǎoyīng
- Albanian
- shqiponjë
- Breton
- erer
- Catalan
- àguila
- Corsican
- acula
- Czech
- orel
- Danish
- ørn
- Esperanto
- aglo
- Estonian
- kotkas
- Finnish
- kotka
- Georgian
- არწივი arc̣ivi
- Hebrew
- עַיִט áyit
- Icelandic
- örn
- Kurdish
- eylo
- Latvian
- ērglis
- Lithuanian
- erelis
- Malagasy
- voromahery
- Norwegian
- ørn
- Romanian
- acvilă
- Scottish Gaelic
- iolair
- Serbo-Croatian
- orao
- Slovak
- orol
- Slovenian
- orel
- Swahili
- tai
- Walloon
- êgue
- Welsh
- eryr
- Yiddish
- אָדלער odler
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline.
1. Zoology Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliæetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaëtus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Haliæetus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.
2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
3. Astronomy A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
4. The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people.
Though the Roman eagle shadow thee.— Alfred Tennyson
☞ Some modern nations, as the United States, and France under the Bonapartes, have adopted the eagle as their national emblem. Russia, Austria, and Prussia have for an emblem a double-headed eagle.
Bald eagle. See Bald eagle. — Bold eagle. See under Bold. — Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States worth twenty dollars. — Eagle hawk Zoology, a large, crested, South American hawk of the genus Morphnus. — Eagle owl Zoology, any large owl of the genus Bubo, and allied genera; as the American great horned owl (Bubo Virginianus), and the allied European species (B. maximus). See Horned owl. — Eagle ray Zoology, any large species of ray of the genus Myliobatis (esp. M. aquila). — Eagle vulture Zoology, a large West African bid (Gypohierax Angolensis), intermediate, in several respects, between the eagles and vultures.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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