hunterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From hunter.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhʌntɚ/

固有名詞

Hunter (countable and uncountable, plural Hunters)

1. An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a hunter.
2. A male 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.
      3. An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
      4. A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo, central Victoria, Australia
   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 town in Woodruff County, Arkansas.
      2. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Illinois.
      3. A township in Edgar County, Illinois.
      4. A minor city in Mitchell County, Kansas; named for early settler Al Hunter.
      5. A township in Jackson County, Minnesota.
      6. A census-designated place in Carter County, Missouri; named for early landowner John Hunter.
      7. A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada.
      8. A town and village therein, in Greene County, New York.
      9. A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota; named for local landowner John Hunter.
      10. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio; named for Ohio congressman W. F. Hunter.
      11. A census-designated place in Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio.
      12. A town in Garfield County, Oklahoma.
      13. A census-designated place in Carter County, Tennessee.
      14. A town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin.
4. (astronomy) The constellation Orion.
   • 1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150:

     But he must ever watch the northern Bear,
     Who from her frozen height with jealous eye
     Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south,
     And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.

   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 138:

     She betook herself to the bedroom in the western wing, there to lie and watch pale Diana chase the Hunter down the sky.

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