ANGLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angler mean? 

• ANGLER (noun)
  The noun ANGLER has 3 senses:

1. a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

2. a fisherman who uses a hook and line

3. fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

  Familiarity information: ANGLER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("angler" is a kind of...):

plotter; schemer (a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action)

Derivation:

angle (move or proceed at an angle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fisherman who uses a hook and line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

angler; troller

Hypernyms ("angler" is a kind of...):

fisher; fisherman (someone whose occupation is catching fish)

Derivation:

angle (fish with a hook)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

allmouth; angler; angler fish; anglerfish; goosefish; Lophius Americanus; lotte; monkfish

Hypernyms ("angler" is a kind of...):

acanthopterygian; spiny-finned fish (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)

Meronyms (parts of "angler"):

monkfish (flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America)

Holonyms ("angler" is a member of...):

family Lophiidae; Lophiidae (large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers)

Derivation:

angle (fish with a hook)