LOGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does logger mean? 

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

1. a person who fells trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOGGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

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

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

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

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

Derivation:

log (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)