RETRIEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retriever mean? 

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

1. a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETRIEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

gun dog; sporting dog (a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns)

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

flat-coated retriever (an English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water)

curly-coated retriever (an English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water)

golden retriever (an English breed having a long silky golden coat)

Labrador retriever (breed originally from Labrador having a short black or golden-brown coat)

Chesapeake Bay retriever (American breed having a short thick oily coat ranging from brown to light tan)

Derivation:

retrieve (run after, pick up, and bring to the master)

 Context examples 

The Curly-Coated Retriever is a large, athletic retriever with a distinctive crisp curly coat.

(Curly-Coated Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is a powerful, muscular retriever with a slightly wavy, rather short coat.

(Chesapeake Bay Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird.

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

The Flat-Coated Retriever is a black or liver-colored retriever with a sleek, medium-length, thick coat with well-feathered legs, tail and chest.

(Flat-Coated Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)