hunter
noun
Simple meaning
Someone who hunts game for sport or for food.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
huhnterSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈhʌntɚ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
One who hunts or seeks after anything.
A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
A place in Australia
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
Used this way, hunter is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a sporting use: familiar to anyone who follows the game, and puzzling to anyone who does not.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Sports
- News/reporting
- Everyday conversation
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use hunter
- “The hunter carefully tracked the deer through the forest.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
Related forms, grouped by how they connect.
Inflected forms
Grammatical variations of the same word.
Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals).
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A member of a hunting and gathering society.
Hunter of deer.
Hunter of ducks.
A person who seeks wealth through marriage.
A mounted hunter who follows the hounds in pursuit of a fox.
Someone who tries to attract social lions as guests.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa).
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