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(ɹ)
• Homophone: junta (foot-strut split)

Noun

hunter (plural hunters)

1. One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
2. A dog used in hunting.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end

3. A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
   • c. 1792–3, Jane Austen, ‘Catharine, or The Bower’, Juvenilia:

     ‘His favourite Hunter who was turned out in the park on his going abroad, somehow or other fell ill […] .’

   • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:

     a sound, swift, well-bred hunter and roadster

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “About the Rightful Mrs. Nutter of the Mills, and How Mr. Mervyn Received the News”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 258:

     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, published 2010, page 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

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 155:

     You know right well, how meek soe'er he seem, / No keener hunter after glory breathes.

5. (psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.

   Coordinate term: howler

   • 2008, J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann, Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures, page 121:

     Although their behavior does not have the same impact as hunters, howlers nevertheless distract the public figure and compel security and law enforcement […]

   • 2015, Steve Albrecht, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities:

     Hunters stalk their targets, make detailed plans, acquire and practice with weapons, and try to hurt or kill people. Howlers make bomb threats to schools, malls, churches, businesses, and government offices.

6. A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
7. 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

 

Coordinate terms

• fisher
• fisherman
• gatherer

 

Derived terms

• antihunter
• bookhunter
• bounty hunter
• bowhunter
• caterpillar hunter
• coolhunter
• cool hunter
• cyclone hunter
• demi-hunter
• dinosaur hunter
• dog hunter
• dung-hunter
• forest caterpillar hunter
• fortune-hunter
• foxhunter
• ghosthunter
• half-hunter
• head hunter
• head-hunter
• headhunter
• house-hunter
• househunter
• Hunter
• hunteress
• hunter eyes
• hunter-gatherer
• hunter-gathering
• hunter green
• hunter-killer
• hunterlike
• hurricane hunter
• jobhunter
• legacy hunter
• lion hunter
• long hunter
• manhunter
• masked hunter
• minehunter
• molehunter
• moth-hunter
• night hunter
• nonhunter
• pedohunter
• persistence hunter
• place-hunter
• pothunter
• scalphunter
• scuffle hunter
• seal hunter
• seal-hunter
• spiderhunter
• stormhunter
• storm-hunter
• storm hunter
• subhunter
• Todhunter
• tornado hunter
• treasure-hunter
• treehunter
• trophy hunter
• tuft-hunter
• tufthunter
• typhoon hunter
• unicorn hunter
• white-edged hunter hawkmoth
• widow-hunter
• witch hunter
• wolf-hunter

 

Related terms

• hunt
• hunted
• Hunter
• hunting
• Huntress
• huntress
• Huntsman
• huntsman

 

Translations

person who hunts game

• Abkhaz: ашәарыцаҩ (aŝʷarəcajʷ)
• Ainu: イラマンテクㇽ (iramantekur)
• Albanian: gjahtar (sq) m, gjuetar (sq) m
• Arabic: صَيَّاد m (ṣayyād), صَائِد m (ṣāʔid)

  Egyptian Arabic: صياد m (ṣayyād)

  Moroccan Arabic: صياد m (ṣiyyād)

• Armenian: որսորդ (hy) (orsord)
• Asturian: cazador (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: ovçu (az)
• Bashkir: һунарсы (hunarsı), аусы (awsı)
• Basque: ehiztari
• Belarusian: паляўні́чы m (paljaŭníčy), мыслі́вы m (myslívy) (regional), мыслі́ўца m (myslíŭca) (dated)
• Bengali: শিকারী (śikari)
• Bulgarian: лове́ц (bg) m (lovéc)
• Burmese: မုဆိုး (my) (mu.hcui:)
• Catalan: caçador (ca) m
• Cebuano: tigpangayam, tigpusil
• Chechen: таллархо (tallarxo)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏃᎭᎵᏙᎯ (ganohalidohi)
• Cheyenne: émȯhónéhe
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 獵人／猎人 (lip⁶ jan⁴), 獵戶／猎户 (lip⁶ wu⁶)

  Hokkien: 獵人／猎人 (la̍h-jîn), 獵戶／猎户 (la̍h-hō͘)

  Mandarin: 獵人／猎人 (zh) (lièrén), 獵戶／猎户 (zh) (lièhù)

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

  Ancient: θηρευτής m (thēreutḗs), κυνηγέτης m (kunēgétēs), κῠνᾱγός m (kunāgós), ἀγρευτής m (agreutḗs)

• Gujarati: અહેડી f (aheḍī)
• Hebrew: ייד / צַיָּד (he) m (tsayád)
• Hindi: शिकारी (hi) m (śikārī), बहेलिया (hi) (baheliyā), सय्याद m (sayyād), सौयाद m (sauyād), आहेरी m (āherī)
• Hungarian: vadász (hu)
• Icelandic: veiðimaður m
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Ingrian: jahtimees, kyttä, kyttämees, ohotnikka
• Irish: fiagaí m, sealgaire m
• Italian: cacciatore (it) m
• Japanese: 猟師 (ja) (りょうし, ryōshi), 狩人 (ja) (かりゅうど, karyūdo)
• Karok: akúnvaan, ahavishkánvaan
• Kashubian: jachtôrz m
• Kazakh: аңшы (añşy)
• Khakas: аңӌы (añcı)
• Khmer: ប្រមាញ់ (km) (prɑmañ), ព្រាន (km) (priən)
• Kikuyu: mũguĩmi class 1
• Korean: 사냥꾼 (ko) (sanyangkkun), 엽사(獵師) (ko) (yeopsa), 렵사(獵師) (ryeopsa) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nêçîrvan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: аңчы (ky) (aŋcı)
• Lakota: wóle wičháša, wakhúwa
• Lao: ພານ (phān)
• Latgalian: mednīks m
• Latin: vēnātor m
• Latvian: mednieks m, medniece f
• Lithuanian: medžiotojas m
• Lü: ᦘᦱᧃ (phaan)
• Lushootseed: sʔubədiʔ
• Luxembourgish: Jeeër m
• Macedonian: ловец m (lovec)
• Malay: pemburu
• Maori: kaiwhakangau (with dogs), kaiwhakangangahu (with dogs), kaiwhaiwhai, kaiwhakarapu
• Mongolian: анчин (mn) (ančin)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵏⴳⵎⴰⵔ m (angmar)
• Navajo: naalzheehí
• Nepali: शिकारी (śikārī), सिकारी (sikārī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jeger (no) m, veidemann (no) m

  Nynorsk: jeger m, veidemann m, veidar m

• Odia: ଶିକାରୀ (or) (śikāri)
• Ojibwe: giiyosewinini
• Old Galician-Portuguese: caçador
• Ossetian: цуанон (cwanon)
• Paiwan: cinunan
• Pashto: صياد m (sayād)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: شِکارْچی (fa) (šekârči), صَیَّاد (fa) (sayyâd), نَخْجیرْبان (naxjirbân)

• Plautdietsch: Jäaja m
• Polish: myśliwy (pl) m, myśliwa (pl) f, łowca (pl) m, łowczyni f
• Portuguese: caçador (pt) m
• Romanian: vânător (ro) m
• Russian: охо́тник (ru) m (oxótnik), лове́ц (ru) m (lovéc)
• Sanskrit: लुब्धक (sa) (lubdhaka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ло̀вац m

  Roman: lòvac (sh) m

• Shor: аңчы (añçı)
• Slovak: lovec m, poľovník m, lovkyňa f, poľovníčka f
• Slovene: lovec (sl) m, lovka f
• Southern Altai: аҥчы (aŋčï), уучы (uučï)
• Spanish: cazador (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: ontiman
• Swahili: msasi (sw), mwindaji (sw)
• Swedish: jägare (sv) c
• Tagalog: mangangaso
• Tajik: шикорчӣ (tg) (šikorči), сайёд (sayyod)
• Tamil: வேட்டைக்காரன் (ta) (vēṭṭaikkāraṉ)
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵏⴳⵓⵎⴰⵔ m (angumar)
• Tatar: аучы (tt) (awçı), сунарчы (tt) (sunarçı)
• Telugu: వేటగాడు (te) (vēṭagāḍu)
• Thai: พราน (th) (praan)
• Tocharian B: śerwe
• Turkish: avcı (tr)
• Turkmen: awçy (tk)
• Tuvan: аңчы (añçı)
• Udmurt: нюлэскась (ńuleskaś)
• Ukrainian: мисли́вець m (myslývecʹ), лове́ць (uk) m (lovécʹ)
• Urdu: شِکاری m (śikārī), صَیّاد m (sayyād), بَہیلِیا m (baheliyā), شِکار باز m (śikār bāz)
• Uyghur: ئاڭچى (angchi)
• Uzbek: ovchi (uz)
• Venetan: casador m, ghègher m, caẑador m
• Vietnamese: người đi săn, thợ săn
• Walloon: tchesseu (wa) m
• Welsh: heliwr m
• West Frisian: jager c
• Yakut: булчут (bulcut)
• Yiddish: יעגער m (yeger)
• Zazaki: seydwan (diq) c

hunting dog

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獵犬／猎犬 (zh) (lièquǎn)

• 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 (かりいぬ, kariinu)
• Maori: kūri whakangau
• Plautdietsch: Jäajahunt m
• Portuguese: cão de caça m, sabujo (pt) m
• Russian: охо́тничья соба́ка f (oxótničʹja sobáka)
• Spanish: perro de caza m
• Swedish: jakthund (sv) 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

• Catalan: cercador (ca) m, cercadora (ca) f
• Danish: jæger (da) c
• French: chercheur (fr) m, chercheuse (fr) f
• Greek: κυνηγός (el) m (kynigós)
• Italian: cercatore (it) m, cercatrice f
• Portuguese: buscador (pt) m, buscadora f
• Spanish: buscador (es) m, buscadora (es) f
• Swedish: sökare (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

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

See also

• hunter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Etymology

From hunten +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuntər/

Noun

hunter (plural hunters)

1. hunter

Descendants

• English: hunter