Huntress

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈhÊŒntɹᵻs/

Alternative forms

• hunteress obsolete

Origin

From hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.

Full definition of huntress

Noun

1. A female hunter.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:In those same woods ye well remember may
  How that a noble hunteress did wonne ....
• 2014, William Kremer, A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia, BBC World Service:Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.

Anagrams

• shunters