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say it: JEG-ur
jaeger is a noun meaning "rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɛɡɚ/ — JEG-ur. It carries one recorded sense.
rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jaeger come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.