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stalker.

A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)//ˈstaːkɐ/Northumbria
  1. A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.

  2. A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.

  3. Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.

  4. Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.

  5. A kind of fishing net.

    obsolete
  6. A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk + -er.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.