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HUNTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
Synonyms:
hunter; hunting watch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("hunter" is a kind of...):
ticker; watch (a small portable timepiece)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel
Synonyms:
Hunter; Orion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("Hunter" is a kind of...):
diffuse nebula; gaseous nebula (a cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust)
Instance hypernyms:
constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)
Meronyms (members of "Hunter"):
Alpha Orionis; Betelgeuse (the second brightest star in Orion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who hunts game
Synonyms:
hunter; huntsman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hunter" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hunter"):
bounty hunter (a hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty)
courser (a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey)
deer hunter (hunter of deer)
duck hunter (hunter of ducks)
falconer; hawker (a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry)
fowler (someone who hunts wild birds for food)
huntress (a woman hunter)
lion-hunter (someone who hunts lions)
pothunter (someone who hunts for food (not for sport))
snarer (someone who sets snares for birds or small animals)
stalker (someone who stalks game)
tracker (someone who tracks down game)
trapper (someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs))
Instance hyponyms:
Nimrod ((Old Testament) a famous hunter)
Derivation:
hunt (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))
hunt (search (an area) for prey)
hunt (pursue or chase relentlessly)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A person who searches for something
Example:
a treasure hunter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("hunter" is a kind of...):
quester; searcher; seeker (someone making a search or inquiry)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hunter"):
forager (someone who hunts for food and provisions)
Derivation:
hunt (seek, search for)
Context examples:
Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Hunters!" repeated Edward—"but why must you have hunters?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We're both as hungry as hunters, so we shan't mind what it is.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was the summer of 1898, and thousands of gold-hunters were going up the Yukon to Dawson and the Klondike.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Two days later a newspaper published in Chicago accepted his "Treasure Hunters," promising to pay ten dollars for it on publication.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was Major Hunter, of the Guards, with whom I had had a little tracasserie, because I hinted that he should not come into Brookes’s smelling of the stables.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is no competition for the prize: the honey-hunters harvest the honey and honeyguides devour the wax combs left behind.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
That angular shadow up yonder was the bait, and we were the hunters.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they, stealing from their camps in fierce winters, robbing their traps, slaying their dogs, and defying their bravest hunters.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
