fisher
/ˈfɪʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.02 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
noun
A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
Example Sentences
- "The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands."
- "Yet every fisher that Dzugan knows, and every fisher elsewhere, too, knows someone who has died at sea or had a near miss. […] But they are also the reasons for the safety campaigns, for the constant and valiant attempts to persuade fishers to wear lifejackets at work, to figure out how to get someone overboard back on the vessel, to carry ladders or gaffers that someone can grab on to."
- "In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners."
- "In the southeastern United States, Krohn et al. (1994) hypothesize that the inverse relationship between captures of fishers and martens by commercial trappers may result from an interaction between competitive displacement of marten by fisher and the avoidance of areas with deep and frequent snowfalls by fishers but not martens."
- "The term "forest carnivores" denotes a smaller group of four species - the marten, fisher, lynx, and wolverine - and is only marginally descriptive, inasmuch as it excludes many carnivores that live in forests, and includes the wolverine, which can thrive in the complete absence of trees."
Etymology
From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɪʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈfɪʃə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
bottom fisher
fisher-boat
Fisher King
line fisher
whale fisher
whale-fisher
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fishing § Derived terms
Frequently Paired Words
fishery
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fishing § Derived terms
piscatory
piscatorial
piscatorian
piscatorious
piscatorially