GAMEKEEPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gamekeeper mean? 

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

1. a person employed to take care of game and wildlife

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMEKEEPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person employed to take care of game and wildlife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

game warden; gamekeeper

Hypernyms ("gamekeeper" is a kind of...):

custodian; keeper; steward (one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gamekeeper"):

warrener (maintains a rabbit warren)

 Context examples 

“Well, who's a better right?” growled the gamekeeper.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The tables were deserted, and the dealers and gamekeepers came forth to see the outcome of the wager and to lay odds.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A few months ago we were in hopes that he was about to settle down again for he became engaged to Rachel Howells, our second housemaid; but he has thrown her over since then and taken up with Janet Tregellis, the daughter of the head gamekeeper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The approach of September brought tidings of Mr. Bertram, first in a letter to the gamekeeper and then in a letter to Edmund; and by the end of August he arrived himself, to be gay, agreeable, and gallant again as occasion served, or Miss Crawford demanded; to tell of races and Weymouth, and parties and friends, to which she might have listened six weeks before with some interest, and altogether to give her the fullest conviction, by the power of actual comparison, of her preferring his younger brother.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I believe the readiness of our return volley had scattered the mutineers once more, for we were suffered without further molestation to get the poor old gamekeeper hoisted over the stockade and carried, groaning and bleeding, into the log-house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)