Difference between Fowl and Chicken

Fowl

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bird. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hunt fowl.

Chicken

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: cowardly

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To avoid as a result of fear.To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when youngThe meat from this bird eaten as food.A coward.A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair.A young person of either sex.A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the loser.