hunter
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)hunters
- someone who hunts gameType of skilled worker, trained workerKinds trapper, duck hunter, deer hunter, snarer, bounty hunter, tracker, courser, lion-hunter, huntsman, falconer +5 moreExamples Nimrod
- a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and RigelSynonyms: OrionInstance of constellation, diffuse nebulaMembers Betelgeuse, Alpha Orionis
- a person who searches for something“a treasure hunter”Type of seeker, searcherKinds forager
- a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystalSynonyms: hunting watchType of watch, ticker
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Translations
Noun person who hunts game
- Spanish
- cazador
- French
- chasseur
- German
- Jäger
- Italian
- cacciatore
- Portuguese
- caçador
- Turkish
- avcı
- Russian
- охо́тник oxótnik
- Arabic
- صَيَّاد ṣayyād
- Chinese
- 猎人 lièrén
- Japanese
- 猟師 ryōshi
29 more languages
- Dutch
- jager
- Polish
- myśliwy
- Swedish
- jägare
- Greek
- κυνηγός kynigós
- Korean
- 사냥꾼 sanyangkkun
- Indonesian
- pemburu
- Vietnamese
- thợ săn
- Hungarian
- vadász
- Portuguese (PT)
- caçador
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 獵人 lièrén
- Albanian
- gjahtar
- Catalan
- caçador
- Czech
- lovec
- Danish
- jæger
- Esperanto
- ĉasisto
- Estonian
- jahimees
- Finnish
- metsästäjä
- Georgian
- მონადირე monadire
- Hebrew
- צַיָּד tsayád
- Icelandic
- veiðimaður
- Latvian
- mednieks
- Lithuanian
- medžiotojas
- Norwegian
- jeger
- Romanian
- vânător
- Scottish Gaelic
- sealgair
- Serbo-Croatian
- lovac
- Slovenian
- lovec
- Swahili
- msasi
- Yiddish
- יעגער yeger
Noun hunting dog
- Italian
- cane da caccia
- Greek
- κυνηγόσκυλο kynigóskylo
- Hungarian
- vadászkutya
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. William Shakespeare
3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
No keener hunter after glory breathes.— Alfred Tennyson
5. Zoology A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. — Hunter's screw Mechanics, a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54