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shikaree

shikaree is the dated form of shikari.

Meaning of shikari

Noun

shikari (plural shikaris)

  1. A hunter or tracker, especially in the Indian subcontinent.
    • ‘And if thou art not a shikarri, where didst thou learn thy knowledge of the tiger-folk?’ said he. ‘No tracker could have done better.’1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196
  2. (historical) A shooting-boat used in the Kashmir lakes.

Forms of shikaree

pluralshikarees

Questions about shikaree

What is shikaree the dated form of?
Shikaree is the dated form of shikari.

Words near shikaree in the dictionary

  1. shikakais
  2. shikar
  3. shikara
  4. shikaras
  5. shikared
  6. shikaree
  7. shikarees
  8. shikargah
  9. shikargahs
  10. shikari
  11. shikaring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shikaree (page history and authors); shikari (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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