SETTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does setter mean? 

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

1. one who sets written material into type

2. a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point

  Familiarity information: SETTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SETTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who sets written material into type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

compositor; setter; typesetter; typographer

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

pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

gun dog; sporting dog (a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns)

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

English setter (an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white)

Irish setter; red setter (an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahogany-red coat)

Gordon setter (a Scottish breed with a black-and-tan coat)

 Context examples 

The English Setter is a slim setter with a speckled coat.

(English Setter, NCI Thesaurus)

One sequence followed the same ABA pattern (terrier, setter, terrier); the other followed a new AAB pattern (terrier, terrier, setter).

(Infants Are Able to Learn Abstract Rules Visually, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Gordon Setter is the only black and tan setter.

(Gordon Setter, NCI Thesaurus)

One white man, having seen his dog, a setter, torn to pieces before his eyes, drew a revolver.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.

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

Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first advances.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)