beast of prey
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A carnivorous animal that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates.
Example Sentences
- "Much controversy has surrounded Nietzsche’s writings on the “higher” and “lower” types of man. Is he to be taken as glorifying the cruel tyrant, the “beast of prey”, or did he have some less repulsive ideal? The answer seems to be neither an unqualified yes nor an unqualified no."