hunter
IPA: hˈʌntɝ
noun
- One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
- A dog used in hunting.
- A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
- One who hunts or seeks after anything.
- (psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
- A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
- A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
- An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a hunter.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A placename
- A place in Australia
- A river in New South Wales, Australia; flowing 300 km from the Mount Royal Range within Barrington Tops National Park into the Tasman Sea at Newcastle; named for John Hunter, 2nd Governor of New South Wales.
- A river in Western Australia, Australia; flowing 16 km from Donkins Hill near Mitchell River National Park into the Timor Sea; named by Australian explorer Philip Parker King for James Hunter, the surgeon of King's HMS Mermaid.
- An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia
- A river in northwest Otago, New Zealand; flowing into Lake Hāwea.
- A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada; flowing from near Hartville into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near North Rustico.
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Kansas; named for early settler Al Hunter.
- A city in South Dakota; named for local landowner John Hunter.
- A town in Arkansas.
- A town in New York, and a village within that town.
- An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio; named for Ohio congressman W. F. Hunter.
- A census-designated place in Warren County, Ohio.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- A town in Wisconsin.
- A census-designated place in Missouri; named for early landowner John Hunter.
- A census-designated place in Tennessee.
- A ghost town in Nevada.
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Examples of "hunter" in Sentences
- The hunters pounced on a boar.
- The Adventure of the Gold Hunter.
- Bargain hunters prepare to swoop.
- He is one of the psychic hunters.
- The hunter was following the deer.
- He used to be a relentless hunter.
- Hunters placed snares in the forest.
- Hunter was the more successful of the two.
- Lisa was the youngest of the hunter siblings.
- The hunter reserved the right to hunt, fish and fowl on the islands.
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