hunter

See also Hunter

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From hunt +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: hun‧ter
• Rhymes: -ʌntə(r)

Noun

hunter (plural hunters)

1. One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
2. A dog used in hunting.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

3. A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:

     Henry, laughing, spurs away his hunter under the dripping trees.

4. One who hunts or seeks after anything.

   The hunter becomes the hunted.

   a fortune hunter

   • Tennyson

     No keener hunter after glory breathes.

5. A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.

Derived terms

• white hunter

Related terms

• hunted
• hunting

Translations

person who hunts game

• Albanian: gjahtar (sq) m, gjuetar (sq) m
• Arabic: صائِد (ar) m
• Armenian: որսորդ (hy) (orsord)
• Azeri: ovçu (az)
• Catalan: caçador (ca) m
• Czech: lovec (cs) m
• Danish: jæger (da) c
• Dutch: jager (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉasisto (eo), ĉasanto (eo)
• Ewe: adela n
• Finnish: metsästäjä (fi)
• French: chasseur (fr) m
• German: Jäger (de) m
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) (kynigós) m
• Hebrew: צַיָּד (he)
• Hungarian: vadász (hu)
• Icelandic: veiðimaður (is) m
• Irish: fiagaí (ga) m, sealgaire (ga) m
• Italian: cacciatore (it) m
• Japanese: 猟師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi)
• Latgalian: mednīks m

• Latin: vēnātor (la) m
• Latvian: mednieks (lv) m
• Lithuanian: medžiotojas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Jeeër (lb) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jeger (nb) m, veidemann (nb) m

  Nynorsk: jeger (nn) m, veidemann (nn) m, veidar (nn) m

• Old Portuguese: caçador
• Persian: شکارچی (fa) (šekârči)
• Polish: myśliwy (pl) m
• Portuguese: caçador (pt)
• Romanian: vânător (ro)
• Russian: охотник m (okhotnik)
• Sanskrit: लुब्धक (lubdhaka)
• Slovak: lovec m, poľovník m
• Spanish: cazador (es) m
• Swahili: msasi (sw)
• Swedish: jägare (sv) c
• Telugu: వేటగాడు (te) (vETagaaDu)
• Turkish: avcı (tr)

hunting dog

• Dutch: jachthond (nl) m
• French: chien de chasse (fr) m
• Greek: κυνηγόσκυλο (el) (kynigóskylo) n
• Hungarian: vadászkutya (hu)
• Italian: cane da caccia (it) m

• Japanese: 猟犬 (ja) (りょうけん, ryōken)
• Portuguese: cão de caça
• Swedish: jakthund (sv) c
• Turkish: av köpeği (tr)

hunting horse

• French: cheval de chasse m
• Irish: capall fiaigh (ga) m, capall seilge (ga) m

• Italian: cavallo da caccia m
• Portuguese: cavalo de caça

person who pursues someone

• Greek: κυνηγός (el) (kynigós) m
• Italian: cacciatore (it)

• Swedish: (jägare (sv) c), förföljare (sv) c
• Telugu: వేటగాడు (vETagaaDu)

person who searches for something

• French: chercheur (fr) m, chercheuse (fr) f
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) (kynigós) m

• Italian: cercatore (it) m, cercatrice (it) f
• Swedish: sökare (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Slovak: lovec m (2, 3)

See also

• Hunter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Middle English

Noun

hunter (plural hunters)

1. hunter

Descendants

• English: hunter