huntress
English
Alternative forms
- hunteress (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhʌntɹɪs/
Noun
huntress (plural huntresses, masculine hunter)
- A female hunter.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].
- 2014, William Kremer, A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia, BBC World Service:
- Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
Translations
female who hunts
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