FISHERMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fisherman mean? 

• FISHERMAN (noun)
  The noun FISHERMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone whose occupation is catching fish

  Familiarity information: FISHERMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FISHERMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose occupation is catching fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fisher; fisherman

Hypernyms ("fisherman" 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 "fisherman"):

angler; troller (a fisherman who uses a hook and line)

trawler (a fisherman who use a trawl net)

 Context examples 

“Well, wife,” said the fisherman, “are you king?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Another woman confirmed the account of the fishermen having brought the body into her house; it was not cold.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Last night was very threatening, and the fishermen say that we are in for a storm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We would for the poor fishermen's, to be sure, and we'd help 'em with money when they come to any hurt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fishermen engaged in illegal fishing of sharks usually resort to finning: cutting off the caught sharks’ fins and throwing the sharks back into the water, where they die in agony.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A tumultuous crowd of fishermen, citizens, and women had indeed swarmed out from the northern gate, and approached them up the side of the moor, waving their hands and dancing with joy, as though a great fear had been rolled back from their minds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mutualisms are crucial everywhere in nature, but to our knowledge, the only comparable foraging partnership between wild animals and our own species involves free-living dolphins who chase schools of mullet into fishermen’s nets and in so doing manage to catch more for themselves.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As they came up onto the stone plateau that crowns the hill, Amy waved her hand as if welcoming him to her favorite haunt, and said, pointing here and there, Do you remember the Cathedral and the Corso, the fishermen dragging their nets in the bay, and the lovely road to Villa Franca, Schubert's Tower, just below, and best of all, that speck far out to sea which they say is Corsica?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The calm and control which were so much a part of her seemed to have been communicated to the blankets, so that I was aware of a soft dreaminess and content, and of an oval face and brown eyes framed in a fisherman’s cap and tossing against a background now of grey cloud, now of grey sea, and then I was aware that I had been asleep.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)