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FISHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fisher mean?
• FISHER (noun)
The noun FISHER has 2 senses:
1. someone whose occupation is catching fish
2. large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Familiarity information: FISHER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose occupation is catching fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
fisher; fisherman
Hypernyms ("fisher" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fisher"):
angler; troller (a fisherman who uses a hook and line)
trawler (a fisherman who use a trawl net)
Derivation:
fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
black cat; fisher; fisher cat; Martes pennanti; pekan
Hypernyms ("fisher" is a kind of...):
marten; marten cat (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)
Context examples
He was a most daring and successful seal and whale fisher.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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