fisherman
/ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
noun
A fisher, a person engaged in fishing:
Example Sentences
- "The fisherman casts her line."
- "Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall."
- "He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time."
- "I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours."
- "The fisherman threatened to tell the captain if we did not pay for the boat, and between us we had to dub up twenty-five dollars."
- "Alienated from the clique society, / A lonely boy finds peace in fishing. / His mother says John this is not the way life's supposed to be. / Don't you see the life that you are missing? / And he says / When I grow up I want to be, / One of the harvesters of the sea. / I think before my days are done, / I want to be a fisherman."
Etymology
Etymology tree English fisher Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English fisherman From fisher + -man.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪʃ.ɚ.mən/
- British English: /ˈfɪʃ.ə.mən/