Meaning

4 senses

  1. Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.

    помо́рникpomórnik

  2. A hunter or hunter's attendant.

    е́герьjégerʹ

  3. (historical)A rifle.

  4. A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.

    е́герьjégerʹ

More definitions
  • rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
seabird:
hunter's guide:

Origin

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

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Forms

plural: jaegers

Synonyms

1 synonyms
bird of the genus Stercorarius:skua

Word family

3 related words
Derivedpomarine jaegerparasitic jaegerlong-tailed jaeger

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
jacuzzijadeB1jagjaguarjailB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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