faulkner
faulkner Lexical Profile
• noun
William Faulkner (1897–1962), a prominent American novelist and short-story writer celebrated for his modernist, stream-of-consciousness narratives set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in the American South, and a recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"In our American literature seminar, we analyzed how Faulkner used shifting narrative perspectives in his novel The Sound and the Fury."
An archaic spelling of falconer; a person who keeps, trains, or hunts with falcons or other birds of prey.
"The royal faulkner tended to the prized peregrine falcons in the castle mews before the morning hunt."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from an English and Scottish occupational surname meaning 'falconer', from Anglo-Norman French faulconnier, ultimately from Late Latin falco ('falcon').