hunter
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 →
2) A hunter is an animal that hunts other animals, a predator. tree →
3) A hunter is someone who searches hard for something: a treasure hunter, a bargain hunter. tree →
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 →
- The owl is a silent night hunter. tree →
- The hunter followed the deer's tracks. tree →
- Cats are natural hunters. tree →
- A treasure hunter found old coins on the beach. tree →
- Sharks are powerful ocean hunters. tree →
- In the story, the hunter saved Little Red Riding Hood. tree →
- My aunt is a real bargain hunter at sales. tree →
- "Hail, fair maiden!" says the hunter. tree →
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.
- That is a hunter's body doing what it was built for.
- Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.
- When hunters killed most black caimans, piranhas grew in number, because caimans had been eating them.
- The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hunter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.