huntress

See also: Huntress

English

Alternative forms

• hunteress (obsolete)

Etymology

A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter +‎ -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌntɹɪs/

Noun

huntress (plural huntresses)

1. (dated) A female hunter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].

   • 2014, William Kremer, “A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia”, in BBC World Service:

     Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reminder:

     Grief and fear cannot rule you;
     let them be your faithful servants, protective of their mistress.
     Loss serves a huntress like fuel serves fire.

Related terms

• hunt
• Hunter
• hunter
• hunting
• Huntress
• huntsman
• Huntsman

 

Translations

female who hunts

• Arabic: صَيَّادَة f (ṣayyāda), صَائِدَة f (ṣāʔida)
• Catalan: caçadora (ca) f
• Czech: lovkyně (cs) f
• Dutch: jageres (nl) f
• Finnish: metsästäjätär
• French: chasseresse (fr) f, chasseuse (fr) f
• German: Jägerin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: θηράτειρα f (thēráteira), κυνηγίς f (kunēgís)

• Irish: bansealgaire m
• Italian: cacciatrice (it) f
• Latin: vēnātrix f
• Latvian: medniece f
• Malayalam: വേട്ടക്കാരി (vēṭṭakkāri)
• Polish: myśliwa (pl) f, łowczyni f
• Portuguese: caçadora (pt)
• Russian: охо́тница (ru) f (oxótnica)
• Spanish: cazadora (es) f
• Telugu: వేటగత్తె (vēṭagatte)

Anagrams

• reshunts, shunters