pothunter

1. 1.

   a nonprofessional archeologist

   Broaderarcheologist
2. 2.

   someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies

   Broadercontestant
3. 3.

   someone who hunts for food (not for sport)

   Broaderhunter

Other forms of pothunter

plural

pothunters·

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 pothunter

What does pothunter mean?

pothunter means "a nonprofessional archeologist". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pothunter?

pothunter has 3 syllables: po-thun-ter. The stress falls on "po".

Is pothunter a common word?

pothunter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.