Synonyms for hunters


Grammar : Noun
Spell : huhn-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌn tər

Top 10 synonyms for hunters Other synonyms for the word hunters

Définition of hunters

Origin :
  • mid-13c. (attested in place names from late 12c.), from hunt + -er (1). The Old English word was hunta.
  • noun a person who hunts
  • noun a dog or horse bred for hunting
Example sentences :
  • They must have thought you had a band of hunters behind you.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • The hunters were roving the open, and even Hal Dozier was at fault.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • The noise of the hunters was as nothing to the noise she made at me.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • A few people there were, hunters and nomads, living on wild honey and game.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • Yet observe the court she has paid to the whole family of the Hunters.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • On one of these daggers we see five hunters fighting three lions.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
  • Voluntarily, then, he had stepped from the ranks of the hunters to those of the hunted.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Several times she had been fired at by hunters with long-range rifles.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
  • How it tells her no one can say, yet all hunters know that it does.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
  • The Buffalo herds have gone; they have succumbed to the rifles of the hunters.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
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