hunter

Other forms of hunter

plural

hunters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hunter

What does hunter mean?

hunter means "someone who hunts game". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hunter?

hunter has 2 syllables: hun-ter. The stress falls on "hun". In IPA it is /ˈhʌntɚ/.

What is another word for hunter?

Close synonyms include huntsman, Orion, hunting watch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hunter a common word?

hunter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hunter?

1 word rhymes with hunter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.