as in archers
a person who hunts game
hunters must have a license to shoot deer
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Recent Examples of hunters
News of the bugle spread quickly and sent local hunters into a frenzy, scouring the forest for one last chance for glory.
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Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
There would be restrictions on the time and place where hunters could discharge their firearms.
—Elle Meyers, CBS News, 10 June 2026
Flashfood and Too Good To Go are great for deal hunters who can pick up food nearby.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
In the fall of 1995, hunters stumbled on Josette’s bones in the woods near rural Carmel, an hour north of the Bronx.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
In some cases, hunters can also lose their hunting privileges for up to five years.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
Elizabeth costarred with Tony Shalhoub and Matthew Lillard in the movie, stylized as Thir13en Ghosts, as a woman who gets trapped in a home with a baker's dozen ghosts alongside a team of ghost hunters.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Boris Karloff reprises his role as Frankenstein's Monster, who tries to evade capture by hunters and learns to speak upon meeting a kind-hearted blind man.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
Some Montana hunters balk at the notion that corner-crossing needs to be defined, at all.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
There would be restrictions on the time and place where hunters could discharge their firearms.
—Elle Meyers, CBS News, 10 June 2026
Flashfood and Too Good To Go are great for deal hunters who can pick up food nearby.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
In the fall of 1995, hunters stumbled on Josette’s bones in the woods near rural Carmel, an hour north of the Bronx.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2026
In some cases, hunters can also lose their hunting privileges for up to five years.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
Elizabeth costarred with Tony Shalhoub and Matthew Lillard in the movie, stylized as Thir13en Ghosts, as a woman who gets trapped in a home with a baker's dozen ghosts alongside a team of ghost hunters.
—Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
Boris Karloff reprises his role as Frankenstein's Monster, who tries to evade capture by hunters and learns to speak upon meeting a kind-hearted blind man.
—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
Some Montana hunters balk at the notion that corner-crossing needs to be defined, at all.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunters
huntsmen
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Red velvet and leather banquettes call for intimate gatherings while the main room has an eccentric vibe of huntsmen lodge meets medieval garden.—
Christina Liao,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The drawing room had been wallpapered with pictures of huntsmen, onto whose faces the two eldest boys, Jacob and Wilhelm (born in 1785 and 1786, respectively), would cheekily pencil in beards.—
Jennifer Wilson,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Hunters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunters. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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