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kotka — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cougar noun A large wild cat native to the Americas, also called a puma or mountain lion.
  • eagle noun A large, powerful bird of prey with a hooked beak and excellent eyesight.

Senses

kotka is used for these senses in English:

  • Aquila (constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble an eagle. It includes the star Altair.
  • Kotka A city and municipality of the Kymenlaakso region, in southern Finland.
  • alerion (heraldiccharge) A heraldic eagle, especially one displayed without legs/feet or beak.
  • cougar (North America, slang, derogatory) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
  • golden eagle A large bird of prey, Aquila chrysaetos, that hunts while soaring.

cougar — full definition

  1. noun A large wild cat native to the Americas, also called a puma or mountain lion.
  2. noun Informal: an older woman who seeks romantic or sexual relationships with much younger men.

eagle — full definition

  1. noun A large, powerful bird of prey with a hooked beak and excellent eyesight.
  2. noun In golf, a score of two strokes under par on a hole.
  3. verb In golf, to complete a hole in two strokes under par.

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