HITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hitter mean? 

• HITTER (noun)
  The noun HITTER has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

2. someone who hits

  Familiarity information: HITTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HITTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

batsman; batter; hitter; slugger

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

ballplayer; baseball player (an athlete who plays baseball)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hitter"):

bunter (a batter who bunts)

designated hitter (a ballplayer who is designated to bat in place of the pitcher)

pinch hitter ((baseball) a substitute for the regular batter)

switch-hitter (a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed)

whiffer (a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who hits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hitter; striker

Context example:

blacksmiths are good hitters

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

mover (someone who moves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hitter"):

slapper; spanker (a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand)

walloper (a very hard hitter)

Derivation:

hit (cause to move by striking)

 Context examples 

“Who’d have thought he was such a punishing hitter?”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For years there was no such glutton to take punishment and no more finishing hitter than Harrison, though he was always, as I understand, a slow one upon his feet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)