EAGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eagle mean? 

• EAGLE (noun)
  The noun EAGLE has 4 senses:

1. any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight

2. (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole

3. a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars

4. an emblem representing power

  Familiarity information: EAGLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• EAGLE (verb)
  The verb EAGLE has 2 senses:

1. shoot two strokes under par

2. shoot in two strokes under par

  Familiarity information: EAGLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bird of Jove; eagle

Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):

bird of prey; raptor; raptorial bird (any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eagle"):

eaglet (a young eagle)

Harpia harpyja; harpy; harpy eagle (large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America)

Aquila chrysaetos; golden eagle (large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck)

Aquila rapax; tawny eagle (brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia)

American eagle; bald eagle; Haliaeetus leucocephalus (a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body)

sea eagle (any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish)

Holonyms ("eagle" is a member of...):

Accipitridae; family Accipitridae (hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles)

Derivation:

eaglet (a young eagle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):

score (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Derivation:

eagle (shoot in two strokes under par)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An emblem representing power

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the Roman eagle

Hypernyms ("eagle" is a kind of...):

allegory; emblem (a visible symbol representing an abstract idea)

• EAGLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shoot two strokes under par

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

double birdie; eagle

Context example:

She eagled the hole

Hypernyms (to "eagle" is one way to...):

shoot (throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shoot in two strokes under par

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "eagle" is one way to...):

hit; rack up; score; tally (gain points in a game)

Domain category:

golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

eagle ((golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole)

 Context examples 

The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They ran up and saw with horror that the eagle had seized their old acquaintance the dwarf, and was going to carry him off.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A falcon or an eagle, quotha?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked at him, his proud, eagle face, and his tall, sinewy figure, and I wondered whether in the whole land there was a finer, handsomer man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Finally, there was our host, with his rugged, eagle face, and his cold, blue, glacier eyes with always a shimmer of devilment and of humor down in the depths of them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It stood for success, and the eagles stamped upon the coins were to him so many winged victories.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It just hinted of the eagle beak.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The two famous Germans stood beside the stone parapet of the garden walk, with the long, low, heavily gabled house behind them, and they looked down upon the broad sweep of the beach at the foot of the great chalk cliff in which Von Bork, like some wandering eagle, had perched himself four years before.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)