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LION-HUNTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lion-hunter mean? 

LION-HUNTER (noun)
  The noun LION-HUNTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who tries to attract social lions as guestsplay

2. someone who hunts lionsplay

  Familiarity information: LION-HUNTER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LION-HUNTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who tries to attract social lions as guests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lion-hunter" is a kind of...):

climber; social climber (someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who hunts lions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lion-hunter" is a kind of...):

hunter; huntsman (someone who hunts game)


 Context examples 


I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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