fowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: foul, IPA^(key): /faʊl/
• Homophone: foul
• Rhymes: -aʊl
• Rhymes: -aʊəl

名詞

fowl (複数形 fowl または fowls)

1. (archaic) A bird.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XIX, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:

     And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted

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2. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.

派生語

動詞

fowl (三人称単数 現在形 fowls, 現在分詞 fowling, 過去形および過去分詞形 fowled)

1. To hunt fowl.

   We took our guns and went fowling.

派生語

• fowler
• fowling

参照

形容詞

fowl (comparative fowler, superlative fowlest)

1. (obsolete) foul
   • Paradise Lost, John Milton

     Say first, for Heav'n hides nothing from thy view / Nor the deep Tract of Hell, say first what cause / Mov'd our Grand Parents in that happy State / Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off / From their Creator, and transgress his Will / For one restraint, Lords of the World besides? / Who first seduc'd them to that fowl revolt?

参照

• fowl at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fowl in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• Wolf, flow, wolf