archer
IPA: ˈɑrtʃɝ
noun
- One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
- (historical, obsolete) The bishop in chess.
- (astrology) Sagittarius.
- A surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a bowman.
- A suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city in Alachua County, Florida, named after James T. Archer.
- An unincorporated community in Madison County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Curran Township, Sangamon County, Illinois.
- A minor city in O'Brien County, Iowa, named after townsite owner John Archer.
- A census-designated place in Merrick County, Nebraska, named after Robert T. Archer.
- A township in Harrison County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, named after Archer Beasley.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
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Examples of "archer" in Sentences
- He could see that the archer was a man of honor and fairness.
- The archer is a past master, but also a masterpiece, of devastating stillness.
- The 1st apperance splash of the archer was a direct copy of my friend's character concept splash.
- The second movement was called the archer because it separated the arms in a bow-stretching action.
- Iyarri Anatolian god of war and plagues, known as an archer “Lord of the Bow”, similar to Greek god Apollo.
- The archer is not responsible; instead he has channeled spirituality in a manner ignorant of the confines of his self, and indifferent to the external effect.
- For example, he left out the fact that the archer was his ex-girlfriend who, by the way, was on Portland State's archery team and had a restraining order against her ex.
- From a laudable desire to assert the dignity of his theme, Procopius defends the soldiers of his own time against the morose critics, who confined that respectable name to the heavy-armed warriors of antiquity, and maliciously observed, that the word archer is introduced by Homer 8 as a term of contempt.
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