| hunter | | |
| n. (person) | 1. hunter, huntsman | someone who hunts game. |
| ~ bounty hunter | a hunter who kills predatory wild animals in order to collect a bounty. |
| ~ courser | a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey. |
| ~ deer hunter | hunter of deer. |
| ~ duck hunter | hunter of ducks. |
| ~ falconer, hawker | a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry. |
| ~ fowler | someone who hunts wild birds for food. |
| ~ huntress | a woman hunter. |
| ~ lion-hunter | someone who hunts lions. |
| ~ pothunter | someone who hunts for food (not for sport). |
| ~ skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker | a worker who has acquired special skills. |
| ~ snarer | someone who sets snares for birds or small animals. |
| ~ stalker | someone who stalks game. |
| ~ tracker | someone who tracks down game. |
| ~ trapper | someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs). |
| ~ nimrod | (Old Testament) a famous hunter. |
| n. (person) | 2. hunter | a person who searches for something.; "a treasure hunter" |
| ~ forager | someone who hunts for food and provisions.; "in Japan a fungus forager can earn a good living" |
| ~ quester, searcher, seeker | someone making a search or inquiry.; "they are seekers after truth" |
| n. (object) | 3. hunter, orion | a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel. |
| ~ alpha orionis, betelgeuse | the second brightest star in Orion. |
| ~ constellation | a configuration of stars as seen from the earth. |
| ~ diffuse nebula, gaseous nebula | a cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. hunter, hunting watch | a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal. |
| ~ watch, ticker | a small portable timepiece. |
| hunting | | |
| n. (act) | 1. hunt, hunting | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. |
| ~ field sport, outdoor sport | a sport that is played outdoors. |
| ~ blood sport | sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting). |
| ~ battue | a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter. |
| ~ beagling | hunting rabbits with beagles. |
| ~ coursing | hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent. |
| ~ deer hunt, deer hunting | hunting deer. |
| ~ duck hunting, ducking | hunting ducks. |
| ~ fox hunting, foxhunt | mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox. |
| ~ pigsticking | the sport of hunting wild boar with spears. |
| ~ bag | capture or kill, as in hunting.; "bag a few pheasants" |
| ~ batfowl | catch birds by temporarily blinding them. |
| ~ snare, trammel, ensnare, entrap, trap | catch in or as if in a trap.; "The men trap foxes" |
| ~ gin | trap with a snare.; "gin game" |
| n. (act) | 2. hunt, hunting, search | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ exploration | a careful systematic search. |
| ~ foraging, forage | the act of searching for food and provisions. |
| ~ frisk, frisking | the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs.; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk" |
| ~ looking for, looking | the act of searching visually. |
| ~ manhunt | an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime). |
| ~ seeking, quest | the act of searching for something.; "a quest for diamonds" |
| ~ ransacking, rummage | a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).; "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" |
| ~ scouring | moving over territory to search for something.; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing" |
| ~ shakedown | a very thorough search of a person or a place.; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" |
| n. (act) | 3. hunt, hunting | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. |
| ~ canned hunt | a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections. |
| ~ toil, labor, labour | productive work (especially physical work done for wages).; "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
| ~ stalking, still hunt, stalk | a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush. |
| ~ birdnesting | hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs. |
| ~ predation | the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey. |
| safari | | |
| n. (act) | 1. campaign, hunting expedition, safari | an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa). |
| ~ expedition | a journey organized for a particular purpose. |
| ~ africa | the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean. |
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