HUNTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hunter mean? 

• HUNTER (noun)
  The noun HUNTER has 4 senses:

1. someone who hunts game

2. a person who searches for something

3. a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel

4. a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal

  Familiarity information: HUNTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who hunts game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hunter; huntsman

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

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

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

bounty hunter (a hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty)

courser (a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey)

deer hunter (hunter of deer)

duck hunter (hunter of ducks)

falconer; hawker (a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry)

fowler (someone who hunts wild birds for food)

huntress (a woman hunter)

lion-hunter (someone who hunts lions)

pothunter (someone who hunts for food (not for sport))

snarer (someone who sets snares for birds or small animals)

stalker (someone who stalks game)

tracker (someone who tracks down game)

trapper (someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs))

Instance hyponyms:

Nimrod ((Old Testament) a famous hunter)

Derivation:

hunt (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

hunt (search (an area) for prey)

hunt (pursue or chase relentlessly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who searches for something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a treasure hunter

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

quester; searcher; seeker (someone making a search or inquiry)

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

forager (someone who hunts for food and provisions)

Derivation:

hunt (seek, search for)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Hunter; Orion

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

diffuse nebula; gaseous nebula (a cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Meronyms (members of "Hunter"):

Alpha Orionis; Betelgeuse (the second brightest star in Orion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hunter; hunting watch

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

ticker; watch (a small portable timepiece)

 Context examples 

Just then came a hunter with four dogs.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Some of the hunters glanced anxiously aloft.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Let him go; it will teach him a lesson," the hunters said.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“That pieces of a Norse boat were found so far north hints of the risks these hunters might have ended up taking in their quest for ivory.”

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

Mutations in the gene that result in enzymatic deficiency of the gene product are associated with Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (Hunter Syndrome).

(IDS wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

We'll take Redruth, Joyce, and Hunter.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Hunter, on recovering from his stupor, was also quite positive as to the ownership of the cravat.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He’s gone for the dog!” cried Miss Hunter.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I would give any money for a real good hunter.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)