huntress

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhʌntɹɪs/

Noun

1. 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.

Translations

• French: chasseresse, chasseuse
• German: Jägerin
• Italian: cacciatrice
• Portuguese: caçadora
• Russian: охо́тница
• Spanish: cazadora

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