Hunter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌntɚ/
Forms: form: Hunters
Etymology: From hunter.
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a hunter.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename
A place in Australia:
A river in New South Wales, Australia; flowing 300 km from the Mount Royal Range within Barrington Tops National Park into the Tasman Sea at Newcastle; named for John Hunter, 2nd Governor of New South Wales.
glosses: A placename
A place in Australia:
A river in Western Australia, Australia; flowing 16 km from Donkins Hill near Mitchell River National Park into the Timor Sea; named by Australian explorer Philip Parker King for James Hunter, the surgeon of King's HMS Mermaid.
glosses: A placename
A place in Australia:
An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A placename
A river in northwest Otago, New Zealand; flowing into Lake Hāwea.
glosses: A placename
A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada; flowing from near Hartville into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near North Rustico.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Woodruff County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boone County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A township in Edgar County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Mitchell County, Kansas; named for early settler Al Hunter.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A township in Jackson County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A census-designated place in Carter County, Missouri; named for early landowner John Hunter.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Greene County, New York.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota; named for local landowner John Hunter.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio; named for Ohio congressman W. F. Hunter.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A census-designated place in Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Garfield County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A census-designated place in Carter County, Tennessee.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
examples: text: But he must ever watch the northern Bear,
Who from her frozen height with jealous eye
Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south,
And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.
ref: 1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150:
text: She betook herself to the bedroom in the western wing, there to lie and watch pale Diana chase the Hunter down the sky.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 138:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The constellation Orion.
Derived terms: Hunterian
Hunters Hill
Hunter's Hill
Hunter's screw
Hunterston
Huntersville
Upper Hunter
Related terms: hunt
Hunt
hunter
Huntress
huntress
huntsman
Huntsman