gamekeeper
3
6.4
- noun
- /ˈɡeɪmˌkiːpər/
- UK
:
guardabosques
- The gamekeeper is responsible for protecting the wildlife on the estate.
- Poacher turns gamekeeper
- old gamekeeper
It's like the Gillig suits that a gamekeeper will use when he's shooting to hide himself.
- It's like the Gillig suits that a gamekeeper will use when he's shooting to hide himself.
Examples
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Our gamekeeper, Hagrid, is more than capable of seeing to them.
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I wouldn't have spoken to my gamekeeper like that.
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Look, before we came, I took him on as our gamekeeper, okay?
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We want our gamekeeper back.
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Father and I and the gamekeeper often go out riding in the morning...
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According to the gamekeeper, an extremely reliable source, it came from London.
Fiction book (1992) -
He's the gamekeeper for your father's estate.
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Brother's a gamekeeper.
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He's our gamekeeper.
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Barrett's father had been the gamekeeper on the Northumberland estate where Rafael had been fostered; the two were closer than most brothers.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
5
3.8
A person who protects wild animals and enforces hunting and fishing rules
Compounds
A person who used to break rules but now stops others from breaking them, for example protecting animals
How Senior
- US
5
3.8
- UK
3
6.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gamekeeper is made of game, here meaning 'wild animals people hunt', and keeper, 'someone who looks after things', so it literally means a person who looks after game on an estate. That's why a gamekeeper today works to look after and protect wild animals and their homes.