Hunter

Hunter

See also: hunter

English

Etymology

From hunter.

Proper noun

Hunter (countable and uncountable, plural Hunters)

1. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a hunter.
2. A male or female given name transferred from the surname.
3. A placename
   1. A place in Australia
      1. 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.
      2. 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.
   2. A river in northwest Otago, New Zealand; flowing into Lake Hāwea.
   3. A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada; flowing from near Hartville into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near North Rustico.
   4. A locale in the United States.
      1. A city in Kansas; named for early settler Al Hunter.
      2. A city in South Dakota; named for local landowner John Hunter.
      3. A town in Arkansas.
      4. A town in New York, and a village within that town.
      5. A town in Oklahoma.
      6. A town in Wisconsin.
      7. A census-designated place in Warren County, Ohio.
      8. A census-designated place in Missouri; named for early landowner John Hunter.
      9. A census-designated place in Tennessee.
      10. An unincorporatedcommunity in Belmont County, Ohio; named for Ohio congressman W. F. Hunter.
      11. A ghost town in Nevada.

Derived terms

• Hunterian
• Hunter's screw
• Hunterston

Related terms

• hunt
• Hunt
• hunter
• Huntress
• huntress
• huntsman
• Huntsman

 

Translations

surname

German: Jäger (de)

male or female given name

Chinese: Mandarin: 杭特 (Hángtè) Inuktitut: ᕼᐊᓐᑕ (hanta)

river in New South Wales

Awabakal: Coquun