What does fisherman mean?

Definitions for fisherman
ˈfɪʃ ər mənfish·er·man

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fisherman, fishernoun

    someone whose occupation is catching fish

Wiktionary

  1. fishermannoun

    A person who attempts to catch fish.

    The fisherman cast his line.

  2. fishermannoun

    A person whose profession is catching fish.

    He is a fisherman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

  3. fishermannoun

    A boat used for commercial fishing.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fishermannoun

    One whose employment and livelihood is to catch fish.

    Etymology: fisher and man.

    How fearful
    And dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low!
    The fishermen that walk upon the beach
    Appear like mice. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    At length two monsters of unequal size,
    Hard by the shore, a fisherman espies. Edmund Waller.

    Do scales and fins bear price to this excess?
    You might have bought the fisherman for less. John Dryden, Juven.

Wikipedia

  1. Fisherman

    A fisher or fisherman is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishers and fish farmers. Fishers may be professional or recreational. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.

ChatGPT

  1. fisherman

    A fisherman is a person who engages in the activity of catching fish, usually for recreational or commercial purposes. They typically use various techniques, equipment, and tools such as nets, fishing rods, traps, or spears to catch fish from aquatic environments such as lakes, rivers, or oceans. Fishermen may pursue fishing as a hobby, sport, or livelihood, and their activities can vary depending on the location, target species, and fishing regulations in place.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fishermannoun

    one whose occupation is to catch fish

  2. Fishermannoun

    a ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery

Wikidata

  1. Fisherman

    A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. The term can also be applied to recreational fishermen and may be used to describe both men and women. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FISHERMAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fisherman is ranked #94730 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fisherman surname appeared 193 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fisherman.

    68.9% or 133 total occurrences were White.
    24.3% or 47 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    3.1% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fisherman' in Nouns Frequency: #2870

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fisherman in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fisherman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fisherman in a Sentence

  1. Darlene Mullins:

    He was an avid fisherman. He wanted to travel the world.

  2. Dan Distel:

    In order to maintain accurate labeling, you have to track it from the fisherman, who is sometimes in remote locations or in the developing world. And then you track it through a variety of middlemen to the distributor, the store, to the high school kids stocking the shelves. There are a lot of places where things could go wrong.

  3. Sarah Bates:

    Salmon is my livelihood. It’s my main fishery, and it’s the main fishery for a lot of folks in Fisherman’s Wharf. So, I think there are a lot of us that have some hard times coming.

  4. Hao Hong:

    China needs commodities and Russia may have to sell it cheap, one ancient Chinese idiom is that when two clams fight, the fisherman stands to benefit.

  5. Papalii Faafetai:

    We breed them and when they are big enough, we tag and release them into the ocean, any fisherman who catches a turtle in their nets, we pay them to bring them here instead of eating them.

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