fisher
UK/ˈfɪʃə//ˈfɪʃɚ/
fisher noun: a person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
Noun (1)
fisher (plural fishers)
- A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
- The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands.2021 December, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 43, column 1
- 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...2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025
- Synonyms:
- angler, fisherman, fisherperson, piscary, piscator, piscatorialist, piscatorian, piscicapturist, fish farmer, pisciculturist
Noun (2)
fisher (plural fishers)
- A North American marten-like mammal (Pekania pennanti), that has thick brown fur.
- In many ways the fisher resembles the pine marten, possessing many of the marten's tricks and manners.1969, Rutherford George Montgomery, The Living Wilderness, page 13
- 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...1998, Thomas E. Kucera, American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection, page 62
- Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.
Proper noun capitalized: Fisher
Fisher (countable and uncountable, plural Fishers)
- An English surname originating as an occupation for a fisherman.
- A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
- A suburb of the City of Mount Isa, Queensland.
- A locality in Mid Murray council area, South Australia.
- A rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada.
- A minor city in Poinsett County, Arkansas.
- A locality in Humboldt County, California.
- A village in Champaign County, Illinois.
- A village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana.
- A town in Polk County, Minnesota.
- A ghost town in Carroll County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Oregon.
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- An unincorporated community in Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia.
- A sea area centered on the Fisher Bank off the west coast of Denmark.
- Ellipsis of Fisher County
fisher meaning in Malay and Vietnamese
fisher in Malay
- person who fishes
- pemancing
fisher in Vietnamese
- marten
- chồn mactet Bắc Mỹ
Examples of fisher in a sentence
- Fisher, chairman and chief executive of the Gap, and Millard S.
- In the throes of death it would pull the whale fisher at great speed.
- Fishers do not have to wear them.
Synonyms of fisher
- angler
- fisherman
- fisherperson
- piscary
- piscator
- piscatorialist
- piscatorian
- piscicapturist
- fish farmer
- pisciculturist
6 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- pekan
- fisher cat
- black cat
- fisher marten
- big marten
- black fox
Forms of fisher
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fishers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fishers |
Origin of fisher
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”).
From French fichet (“polecat pelt”), probably from Dutch visse (“nasty”); modified by folk etymology to resemble Etymology 1.
From fisher (“fisherman”). Doublet of Fisker and Fischer.
Words formed from fisher
- bottom fisher
- codfisher
- electrofisher
- fisher-boat
- fisherboy
- fisheress
- fisherfolk
- Fisher King
- fisherman
- fisherperson
- fisherwoman
- fishery
- flyfisher
- kingfisher
- line fisher
- rodfisher
- spearfisher
- whale fisher
- whale-fisher
- Fisher County
- Fisherian
- Fisher information
- Fisher's seahorse
- Fisher-Tippett distribution
- Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko theorem
- Fisher-Tippett theorem
- Fisher-Yates shuffle
- international Fisher effect
- fisher cat
- fisher marten
Phrases with fisher
Words that rhyme with fisher
Questions about fisher
- What does fisher mean?
- Fisher means a person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.
- What is fisher in Malay?
- Fisher in Malay is pemancing. See Fisher meaning in Malay.
- What part of speech is fisher?
- Fisher can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fisher?
- Fisher is pronounced /ˈfɪʃə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fisher?
- The plural of fisher is fishers.
Words near fisher in the dictionary
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