hunter

See also: Hunter

English

Etymology

From Middle English hunter, huntere, honter, equivalent to hunt +‎ -er. Compare Old English hunta (“hunter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌntɚ/, [ˈhʌɾ̃ɚ]

• Audio (US)

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

Noun

hunter (plural hunters, feminine huntress)

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.
   • William Thackeray

     a sound, swift, well-fed hunter and roadster

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     No one, however, thought of the haughty and secluded young gentleman who […] when he rode on his black hunter into Dublin, avoided the village, and took the high-road by Inchicore.

   • 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 pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.

Hyponyms

• fortune hunter
• headhunter
• white hunter

Derived terms

• demi-hunter
• half-hunter
• headhunter

Related terms

• hunted
• hunting

Translations

person who hunts game

• Ainu: イラマンテクㇽ (iramantekur)
• Albanian: gjahtar (sq) m, gjuetar (sq) m
• Arabic: صَائِد‎‎ m (ṣāʾid)
• Armenian: որսորդ (hy) (orsord)
• Asturian: cazador m
• Azerbaijani: ovçu (az)
• Bashkir: һунарсы (hunarsï)
• Belarusian: мысьлі́ўца m (mysʹlíŭca)
• Bengali: শিকারী (śikārī)
• Bulgarian: лове́ц (bg) m (lovéc)
• Catalan: caçador (ca) m
• Chechen: таллархо (tallarχo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獵人 (zh), 猎人 (zh) (lièrén)

• Czech: lovec (cs) m
• Danish: jæger (da) c
• Dutch: jager (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉasisto, ĉasanto
• Estonian: kütt, jahimees
• Ewe: adela n
• Finnish: metsästäjä (fi)
• French: chasseur (fr) m
• Galician: cazador m
• Georgian: მონადირე (monadire)
• German: Jäger (de) m
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) m (kynigós)

  Ancient Greek: θηρευτής m (thēreutḗs)

• Gujarati: શિકારી f (śikārī)
• Hebrew: צַיָּד‎‎ (he)
• Hindi: बहेलिया (hi) (bahēliyā)
• Hungarian: vadász (hu)
• Icelandic: veiðimaður m
• Irish: fiagaí m, sealgaire m
• Italian: cacciatore (it) m
• Japanese: 猟師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi), 狩人 (karyūdo)
• Korean: 사냥꾼 (ko) (sanyangkkun)
• Latgalian: mednīks m
• Latin: vēnātor m

• Latvian: mednieks m
• Lithuanian: medžiotojas m
• Luxembourgish: Jeeër m
• Macedonian: ло́вец m (lóvec)
• Malay: pemburu
• Maori: kaiwhakangau (with dogs), kaiwhakangangahu (with dogs), kaiwhaiwhai, kaiwhakarapu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: naalzheehí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jeger (no) m, veidemann m

  Nynorsk: jeger m, veidemann m, veidar m

• Old Portuguese: caçador
• Persian: شکارچی‎‎ (fa) (šekârči)
• Plautdietsch: Jäaja m
• Polish: myśliwy (pl) m, łowca (pl) m
• Portuguese: caçador (pt) m
• Romanian: vânător (ro) m
• Russian: охо́тник (ru) m (oxótnik), лове́ц (ru) m (lovéc)
• Sanskrit: लुब्धक (sa) (lubdhaka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ловац m

  Roman: lovac (sh) m

• Shor: аңчы (añçı)
• Slovak: lovec m, poľovník m
• Slovene: lovec (sl) m
• Spanish: cazador (es) m
• Swahili: msasi (sw), mwindaji (sw)
• Swedish: jägare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mangangaso
• Tamil: வேட்டைக்காரன் (ta) (vēṭṭaikkāraṉ)
• Telugu: వేటగాడు (te) (vēṭagāḍu)
• Thai: พราน (praan)
• Turkish: avcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: мисли́вець m (myslývecʹ)
• Uzbek: ovchi (uz)
• Venetian: casador m, ghègher m, caẑador m
• Vietnamese: người đi săn

hunting dog

• Danish: jagthund c
• Dutch: jachthond (nl) m
• French: chien de chasse (fr) m
• Georgian: მონადირე ძაღლი (monadire ʒaɣli)
• German: Jagdhund (de) m
• Greek: κυνηγόσκυλο (el) n (kynigóskylo)
• Hungarian: vadászkutya (hu)

• Italian: cane da caccia m
• Japanese: 猟犬 (ja) (りょうけん, ryōken), 狩犬 (kariinu)
• Maori: kūri whakangau
• Portuguese: cão de caça m, sabujo (pt) m
• Swedish: jakthund c
• Turkish: av köpeği (tr)

hunting horse

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

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

person who pursues someone

• Danish: forfølger c
• German: Jäger (de) m, Verfolger (de) m
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) m (kynigós)
• Italian: cacciatore (it)

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

person who searches for something

• Danish: jæger (da) c
• French: chercheur (fr) m, chercheuse (fr) f
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) m (kynigós)

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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovak: (2, 3) ^{(please verify)} lovec m

See also

• hunter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huntər/

Noun

hunter (plural hunters)

1. hunter

Descendants

• English: hunter