sniper

«sniper» in Mova's school dictionary: a soldier or gunman who shoots at people from a hidden… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sniper, snipers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A sniper is a soldier or gunman who shoots at people from a hidden place, often from far away with a special rifle. tree →

2) (games, informal) In video games, a sniper is a player or character who shoots from far away; "sniper" can also mean the long-range rifle itself. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and news it comes up in wars, for example the Second World War and the war in Ukraine, and the word tells the reader about hidden danger. Children also meet it in video games. Phrases: "sniper fire", "sniper rifle", "shot by a sniper", "sniper's nest". Related verb: "snipe" (to shoot from hiding; or to make sneaky mean comments).

examples

• The soldiers stayed low because of sniper fire. tree →
• A sniper was hiding in the old tower. tree →
• In the news, they said a sniper had shot at the town. tree →
• In the game, my brother always picks the sniper. tree →
• The sniper used a telescope sight on his rifle. tree →
• During the war, snipers made the streets very dangerous. tree →
• "Stop sniping at your sister," said Dad, meaning stop making mean little comments. tree →

note

Countable: a sniper, snipers. From "snipe", a bird that is hard to shoot, so good shooters were called snipers. This is a serious war word; in real life guns are never a game.

In the corpora

• Mia's squad kept losing because all four of them wanted to be the sniper and nobody wanted to heal anyone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sniper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.