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fishers

fishers is the plural of fisher.

Meaning of fisher

Noun (1)

fisher (plural fishers)

  1. 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

Noun (2)

fisher (plural fishers)

  1. 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
  2. Fur of specimens of species Pekania pennanti.

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Proper noun capitalized: Fishers

Fishers

  1. (plural) plural of Fisher

Phrases with fishers

Questions about fishers

What is fishers the plural of?
Fishers is the plural of fisher.
What part of speech is fishers?
Fishers is a proper noun.

Words near fishers in the dictionary

  1. fishermen
  2. fisherpeople
  3. fisherperson
  4. fisherpersons
  5. Fisherrow
  6. fishers
  7. Fisherwick
  8. fisherwife
  9. fisherwives
  10. fisherwoman
  11. fisherwomen

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