hunter

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hunt·er | \ ˈhən-tər

Definition of hunter

1a : a person who hunts game

b : a dog used or trained for hunting

c : a horse used or adapted for use in hunting with hounds especially : a fast strong horse trained for cross-country work and jumping

2 : one that searches for something

3 : a pocket watch with a hinged protective cover

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Synonyms & Antonyms for hunter

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nonhunter

Examples of hunter in a Sentence

hunters must have a license to shoot deer

Recent Examples on the Web Footprints laid down by Ice Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a Utah desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants. — CBS News, 12 Aug. 2022 Bellizzi: When terrestrial nutrition became unsustainable, technology enabled us to advance from being hunter-gatherers to farmers. — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 15 July 2022 The author of the study, anthropologist Polly Wiessner, spent months with the Ju/’hoansi hunter-gatherers of Namibia and Botswana. — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 30 June 2022 During the Paleoindian Period, which lasted from about 30,000 years ago to around 9,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers migrated to North and South America. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022 The image evoked the cave paintings of Lascaux, drawn by hunter-gatherers some seventeen thousand years ago. — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022 But the area around Blick Mead was special, and the hunter-gatherers who lived here clearly knew it. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022 Even before the first agricultural societies formed around 10,000 B.C., hunter-gatherers in Jordan's Black Desert made bread with tubers and domesticated grain. — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022 The author — an avid hunter and fisherman — began his career as a journalist. — Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 25 July 2022 See More

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