Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seal-hunter

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: seal-hunter
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who hunts seals.

Example Sentences

"...who ekes out a living from fishing in the North Sea, or a nomadic tribesman, or an Inuit seal-hunter."
"In this they both succeeded ; and the brother turned out to be an excellent seal-hunter besides."
"What people know about their climate is also influenced by the cultures of meaning into which they are born (what an Inuit seal-hunter knows about climate will be different to what a Chinese city-dweller knows) and by the cultures of knowledge practice through which they become disciplined (a climatologist knows climate differently to an anthropologist)."

Inflected Forms

seal-hunters (plural) seal hunter (alternative) sealhunter (alternative)

Questions

What does seal-hunter mean?: One who hunts seals.

How to pronounce seal-hunter

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