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hatcher

hatcher noun: one who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.

Noun

hatcher (plural hatchers)

  1. One who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
    • I bought some chicks from a commercial hatcher.
  2. Something that hatches, such as a bird or the egg from which it hatches.
    • Incubators must be carefully monitored so that hatchers and nonhatchers may both be further handled promptly.
    • Under these conditions the late-hatching strategy quickly went extinct, usually within 10 years. With no difference in survivorship between hatching early and late, the early hatchers that survive each produce 20 offspring […]1989, Bart Thomas De Stasio, Dormancy and egg banks of freshwater zooplankton: structure and dynamics
    Synonyms:
    hatchling

Proper noun capitalized: Hatcher

Hatcher

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Quitman County, Georgia.
  3. An unincorporated community in Taylor County, Kentucky.

hatcher meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

hatcher in Urdu

انڈے سینے والا

hatcher in Malayalam

മുട്ട വിരിയിക്കുന്ന പക്ഷി, മുട്ട വിരിയക്കുന്നതിനുള്ള യന്ത്രം

Synonyms of hatcher

Forms of hatcher

pluralhatchers

Plural of hatcher: hatchers

Origin of hatcher

From hatch + -er.

Questions about hatcher

What does hatcher mean?
Hatcher means one who hatches, such as a chicken farmer.
What is hatcher in Urdu?
Hatcher in Urdu is انڈے سینے والا. See Hatcher meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hatcher?
Hatcher can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hatcher?
The plural of hatcher is hatchers.

Words near hatcher in the dictionary

  1. hatchellers
  2. hatchelling
  3. Hatchells
  4. hatchels
  5. Hatchepsut
  6. hatcher
  7. hatcheries
  8. hatchers
  9. hatchery
  10. hatcheryman
  11. hatcherymen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatcher (page history and authors); Hatcher (page history and authors); hatcher (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hatcher (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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