Definitions for owl

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owl owl

Spelling: [oul]

IPA: /aʊl/

Owl is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in owl (low).

Definitions for owl

noun

1. any of numerous, chiefly nocturnal birds of prey, of the order Strigiformes, having a broad head with large, forward-directed eyes that are usually surrounded by disks of modified feathers: many populations are diminishing owing to loss of habitat.
2. one of a breed of domestic pigeons having an owllike appearance.
3. night owl.
4. a person of owllike solemnity or appearance.

adjective

1. operating late at night or all night:

Origin of owl

before 900; Middle English oule, Old English ūle; cognate with Low German ūle, Dutch uil; akin to German Eule, Old Norse ugla

Examples for owl

You ought to be dozing half the day—and instead you're as wide awake as an owl.

Heads the owl Monkey Project, which has been studying owl monkeys in Argentina for 18 years.

This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in Lake Michigan.

This, with coffee, followed a good supper of boiled partridge and owl.

And he winked and blinked at stout Friar Tuck like an owl at the sun.

Keeping the hours of an owl, he does most of the location scouting and exploration.

It is possible that in snaring the owl we have caught the falcon.

An owl had put by for next day the remains of something dainty which he had to eat.

owl monkey offspring get an inordinate amount of care from their fathers.

Fernandez-Duque discovered that owl monkeys are the only reliably monogamous mammal species.