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huntress

/ˈhʌntɹɪs/

huntress noun: a female hunter.

Noun

huntress (plural huntresses)

  1. (literary) A female hunter.
    • In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.2014, William Kremer, “A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia”, in BBC World Service

Proper noun capitalized: Huntress

Huntress (plural Huntresses)

  1. A surname.

huntress meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

huntress in Hindi

a huntress
शिकारिका śikārikā

huntress in Tamil

வேட்டைக்காரி, வேட்டைக்குப் பயன்படுத்தும் பெண்குதிரை

huntress in Telugu

female who hunts
వేటగత్తె vēṭagatte

huntress in Malayalam

female who hunts
വേട്ടക്കാരി vēṭṭakkāri
More languagesFewer languages
huntress in Kannada
ಬೇಂಟೆಗಾರ್ತಿ, ಬೇಟೆಗಾರ್ತಿ, ಚೆಂಚಿತಿ, ಚಂಚಿತಿ
huntress in Arabic
صَيَّادَة ṣayyāda, صَائِدَة ṣāʔida

Forms of huntress

Noun
pluralhuntresses
alternative form (obsolete)hunteress
Proper noun
pluralHuntresses

Plural of huntress: huntresses

Origin of huntress

A variant of hunteress, from Middle English hunteras, hunteres, hunteresse, equivalent to hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.

Feminine form of Hunter.

Words formed from huntress

Questions about huntress

What does huntress mean?
Huntress means a female hunter.
What is huntress in Hindi?
Huntress in Hindi is शिकारिका (śikārikā). See Huntress meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is huntress?
Huntress can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce huntress?
Huntress is pronounced /ˈhʌntɹɪs/.
What is the plural of huntress?
The plural of huntress is huntresses.

Words near huntress in the dictionary

  1. Hunton
  2. Hunton Bridge
  3. Huntons
  4. Huntoon
  5. Huntoons
  6. huntress
  7. huntresses
  8. hunts
  9. hunts and pecks
  10. hunts down
  11. Hunts Grove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huntress (page history and authors); Huntress (page history and authors); शिकारिका (Hindi) (page history and authors); huntress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); huntress (Kannada 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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