Definitions for Hunter

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Hunter hunt·er

Spelling: [huhn-ter]

IPA: /ˈhʌn tər/

Hunter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Hunter (ehnrtu).

Definitions for Hunter

noun

1. a person who hunts game or other wild animals for food or in sport.
2. a person who searches for or seeks something:
3. a horse specially trained for quietness, stamina, and jumping ability in hunting.
4. an animal, as a dog, trained to hunt game.
5. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Orion.
6. Also called hunting watch. a watch with a hunting case.
7. hunter green.
8. John, 1728–93, Scottish surgeon, physiologist, and biologist.
9. Robert Mercer Taliaferro [mur-ser tol-uh-ver] /ˈmɜr sər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1809–87, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1839–41.
10. a male given name.

Origin of Hunter

First recorded in 1200-50, hunter is from the Middle English word huntere. See hunt, -er¹

Examples for Hunter

In it, Kraven the hunter tracks down Spider-Man, shoots him repeatedly, and leaves him for dead, buried underground.

Miss hunter applied her glass to her eye, but could not make out who it was.

McConnell had seen the sign, hunter told me, and “he loves it!”

But, madam, were you not saying something to me about Miss hunter?

He was the warrior and hunter, and she did most of the labor, in both the house and the field.

One lion is pouncing upon a hunter, but his friends are coming to help him.

Cumberbatch and hunter have assiduously avoided being identified as celebrity couple until now.

By 2010, hunter was directing a well received revival of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts at Access Theatre on Broadway.

In 1970, hunter S. Thompson was dispatched to report on a motorcycle race in Las Vegas.

If the hunter fires then, over the horn, he will strike the beast's backbone.