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PRONUNCIATION OF POTHUNTER

pothunter  [ˈpɒtˌhʌntə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POTHUNTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pothunter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POTHUNTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pothunter in the English dictionary

The definition of pothunter in the dictionary is a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. Other definition of pothunter is a person who enters competitions for the sole purpose of winning prizes.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POTHUNTER


antihunter
ˌæntɪˈhʌntə
bowhunter
ˈbəʊˌhʌntə
bug-hunter
ˈbʌɡˌhʌntə
bunter
ˈbʌntə
confronter
kənˈfrʌntə
Deerhunter
ˈdɪəˌhʌntə
foxhunter
ˈfɒksˌhʌntə
Gunter
ˈɡʌntə
headhunter
ˈhɛdhʌntə
hunter
ˈhʌntə
lion-hunter
ˈlaɪənˌhʌntə
manhunter
ˈmænˌhʌntə
marabunta
ˈmærəˌbʌntə
minehunter
ˈmaɪnˌhʌntə
mole-hunter
ˈməʊlˈhʌntə
munter
ˈmʌntə
nonhunter
ˌnɒnˈhʌntə
punter
ˈpʌntə
shunter
ˈʃʌntə
witch-hunter
ˈwɪtʃˌhʌntə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POTHUNTER

pothead
pothecaries
pothecary
potheen
pother
potherb
pothery
potholder
pothole
potholer
potholing
pothook
pothouse
pothunting
potiche
potichomania
potin
potion
Potiphar
potjie

WORDS THAT END LIKE POTHUNTER

bean counter
bean-counter
bounty hunter
center
checkout counter
cool hunter
counter
deli counter
discounter
encounter
food counter
fortune hunter
fortune-hunter
Geiger counter
grunter
haunter
house hunter
over the counter
over-the-counter
scintillation counter
ticket counter

Synonyms and antonyms of pothunter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pothunter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POTHUNTER

Find out the translation of pothunter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pothunter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pothunter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pothunter
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pothunter
570 millions of speakers

English

pothunter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pothunter
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pothunter
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pothunter
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pothunter
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pothunter
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chasseur acharné de trophées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pothunter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pothunter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pothunter
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pothunter
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pothunter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thợ săn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pothunter
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पायथ्रेनर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ödül avcısı yarışmacı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pothunter
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pothunter
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pothunter
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pothunter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pothunter
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pothunter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pothunter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pothunter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pothunter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POTHUNTER»

The term «pothunter» is used very little and occupies the 186.542 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POTHUNTER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pothunter» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pothunter» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pothunter

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTHUNTER»

Discover the use of pothunter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pothunter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Artifacts: A Faye Longchamp Mystery
Faye Longchamp was digging like a pothunter and she hated herself for it. Pothunters were a bare notch above grave robbers. They were vultures. Once a pothunter defiled an ancient site, archaeologists could only hope to salvage a fraction ...
Mary Anna Evans, 2012
2
Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South
Crafted and refined through numerous appearances in the sporting press, the image of the pothunter became an easily recognizable literary trope, which sporting writers referenced whenever in need of a negative role model or a piece of ...
Nicolas W. Proctor, 2002
3
Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales
The search goes on. I have never been a pothunter, because at a very early age I was in the field with archaeologists and saw how sickened and horrified they were by the destruction wreaked by treasure seekers. Not only had irreplaceable  ...
Steve Wilson, 1989
4
Early Man
The pothunter, according to an archeologist quoted in A Survey of Vandalism to Archeological Resources in Southwestern Colorado, ' "deserves eternal damnation". Anyone can sympathize with this harsh judgment who has seen the results ot ...
‎1982
5
Doing archaeology: a cultural resource management perspective
Who Am I? Pothunter to Professional I've been doing archaeology and CRM for close to fifty years, starting in my early teens as what archaeologists call a " pothunter." That term — a derogatory one — means someone without all the proper ...
Thomas F. King, 2005
6
The Trimmed Lamp: And Other Stories of the Four Million
KappelmanandReeves were already there. And Miss Tooker, who designed the May cover for the Ladies' Notathome Magazine. And Mrs. Pothunter, who never drank anything but black andwhite highballs, being in mourning for her husband,  ...
O. Henry, 2014
7
The World's Best Thin Books, Revised: What to Read When Your ...
Mrs. Elliot: Kate's mother, the curator for the local museum. Uncle Bernie: Mrs. Elliot's uncle. Pete: a pothunter who steals the shaman's stone from the archaeological site where it belonged. jimmy Fang: a friend of Kate's who plans to be an ...
Joni Richards Bodart, 2000
8
Slang Dictionaries
Artistic slang. Potfaker,ahawker of crockeryandgeneral earthenware. Pothat, a lowcrowned hat, as distinguished from the soft wideawake and the stovepipe. Pothunter, a sportsman who shoots anything he comes across, having more regard to ...
John Camden Hotten, Francis Grose, Ambrose Bierce, 2014
9
Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction ...
Entrance leading tothe Quetzalpapalotl palace, lined withstoresselling souvenirsto thetourists 9.6 Entrance to the siteof Tulum, linedwithstores selling souvenirs to tourists 9.7 Photo ofTulumtaken towardsits entrance 11.1 A ' pothunter' in ...
Neil Brodie, Kathryn Walker Tubb, 2003
10
The Matador's Crown
Had Crockett turned intoa merciless pothunter? Had he killed the man in the pit for his own gain? James Harlow had intimated he didn't trust Crockett, yet she'd brushed if off as alltoocommon collegiate rivalry. “I wastrying to protect myself.
Alex Archer, 2014

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POTHUNTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pothunter is used in the context of the following news items.
1
8 Things to Do in Taos
When a pothunter gets trapped in a cave, Tatum smells his ticket to the big time. It's a portrait of sensationalist journalism that exploits a story for ... «Huffington Post, Jul 14»
2
18 months after Utah raid, do artifact laws stop theft?
Prison sentences, such as the one he won against the late, notoriously defiant Blanding pothunter Earl Shumway, generally come from direct ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Dec 10»
3
Archaeology: Not As Dry And Dusty As You Think
Had my dad been a pothunter, I would have been one too, happily booting a shovel into the ground right next to him. But he was not. «NPR, Aug 10»

REFERENCE
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