eagle

eagle is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. 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. noun. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.
3. noun. A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight
6. noun. an emblem representing power

   "the Roman eagle"

7. noun. a former gold coin in the United States worth 10 dollars
8. noun. (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole
9. verb. shoot in two strokes under par
10. verb. shoot two strokes under par

    "She eagled the hole"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in eagle:

aegle, aglee, galee

Common word forms

eagled, eagles, eagling

Words from these letters

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