Synonyms for deer

Grammar : Noun

Spell : deer

Phonetic Transcription : dɪər

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Définition of deer

Origin : Old English deor "animal, beast," from Proto-Germanic *deuzam, the general Germanic word for "animal" (as opposed to man), but often restricted to "wild animal" (cf. Old Frisian diar, Dutch dier, Old Norse dyr, Old High German tior, German Tier "animal," Gothic dius "wild animal," also cf. reindeer), from PIE *dheusom "creature that breathes," from root *dheu- (1) "cloud, breath" (cf. Lithuanian dusti "gasp," dvesti "gasp, perish;" Old Church Slavonic dychati "breathe").
For prehistoric sense development, cf. Latin animal from anima "breath"). Sense specialization to a specific animal began in Old English (usual Old English for what we now call a deer was heorot; see hart), common by 15c., now complete. Probably via hunting, deer being the favorite animal of the chase (cf. Sanskrit mrga- "wild animal," used especially for "deer"). Deer-lick is first attested 1778, in an American context.

As in ungulate : noun hoofed animal

Example sentences :

Deer, Angora goats, hares, and trout have been also introduced.
Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest

Suppose that you are taking a trip in the mountains and you have seen a deer.
Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon

She lay looking at me like a deer that I had shot, waiting for me to plunge in the knife.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Deer came at night to feed on the lily buds on the lake borders.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

She's as graceful as a deer, and I'm sure she'll run as fast as any of them.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

We often went after wood, and occasionally we knocked over a deer.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

The salt lake gave us its fish, the wood its deer, and the air its birds.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

Perhaps he wounded the deer with the first shot and the animal had fallen.
Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie

And at short range they're calculated to bring down a deer like fun.
Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie

He asked why his hounds should not be allowed to hunt the deer.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

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