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# hunter

«hunter» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who hunts wild animals for food or sport** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hunter, hunters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A hunter is a person who hunts wild animals for food or sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#m1)

2) A hunter is an animal that hunts other animals, a predator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#m2)

3) A hunter is someone who searches hard for something: a treasure hunter, a bargain hunter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons early people were hunter-gatherers, getting food by hunting animals and gathering plants. In science, hunters (predators) like lions, owls and sharks catch prey; food chains show hunter and hunted. In stories hunters track animals, or treasure hunters search for gold. Phrases: «hunter-gatherer», «treasure hunter», «bargain hunter», «a skilled hunter».

### examples

- Stone Age people were hunter-gatherers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x1)
- The owl is a silent night hunter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x2)
- The hunter followed the deer's tracks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x3)
- Cats are natural hunters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x4)
- A treasure hunter found old coins on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x5)
- Sharks are powerful ocean hunters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x6)
- In the story, the hunter saved Little Red Riding Hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x7)
- My aunt is a real bargain hunter at sales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x8)
- "Hail, fair maiden!" says the hunter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/#x9)

### note

Countable. Built from hunt + er. In science words: hunter = predator; hunted = prey. «Orion the Hunter» is a famous constellation.

### In the corpora

- [Cats are ambush hunters, and even well-fed pet cats still hunt because the urge to chase and pounce is built in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/16/)
- [That is a hunter's body doing what it was built for.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/119-how-real-cats-hunt/1/)
- [Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/12/)
- [When hunters killed most black caimans, piranhas grew in number, because caimans had been eating them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/8/)
- [The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hunter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.