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legacy hunter

legacy hunter noun: one that strives after an inheritance.

Noun

legacy hunter (plural legacy hunters)

  1. One that strives after an inheritance.
    • “[…] I am a great hunter, but not legacy hunter, that is a kind of hunting I despise—and I wish every hunter of that kind may be thrown out, or thrown off, and may never be in at the death!”1817, Maria Edgeworth, chapter IX, in Ormond
    • I am a legacy-hunter, a parasite, a rich man's minion. I bitterly despise myself already. The very servants will sneer at me; the lowest groom in the stable will point at me.1837, John William Kaye, chapter XIX, in Doveton, volume 2, page 249

Forms of legacy hunter

plurallegacy hunters
alternative formlegacy-hunter

Origin of legacy hunter

Calque of Latin hērēdipeta.

Questions about legacy hunter

What does legacy hunter mean?
Legacy hunter means one that strives after an inheritance.
What part of speech is legacy hunter?
Legacy hunter is a noun.
What is the plural of legacy hunter?
The plural of legacy hunter is legacy hunters.

Words near legacy hunter in the dictionary

  1. Lega
  2. legable
  3. legacies
  4. legacy
  5. legacy code
  6. legacy hunter
  7. legacy hunters
  8. legacy media
  9. legacy Oscar
  10. legacy Oscars
  11. legacy press

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