a predatory person or animal
Origin of predator
back-formation from predatory
The lion is a predator.
The definition of a predator is a person or an animal that hunts a smaller weaker person or animal.
An example of a predator is a lion hunting a gazelle.
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predator
noun
- An organism that lives by preying on other organisms.
- A person or group that robs, victimizes, or exploits others for gain.
Origin of predator
Latin praedātor pillager from praedārī to plunder ; see predatory .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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An animal that lives by capturing and eating other animals.
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Noun
(plural predators)
Origin
From Latin praedÄtor, from praedor (“loot, pillage"), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey").
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predator - Medical Definition
n.
An organism that lives by preying on other organisms.
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Sentence Examples
- Mirror Image teaches young people about cyberstalking in a game which is based on a real-life incident where several young women were victimized by an online predator pretending to be a modeling scout.
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- A determined predator can easily find out your child's location by using seemingly innocuous clues.Teach your children to avoid giving any specific information.
- Artistic Effects: GIMP's artistic special effects arsenal includes a few you won't find in other editing software, including cartoon, cubism, oilfy, Van Gogh, and predator.
- Animals that appear smaller than your cat are generally greeted without fear, but enlarge a harmless canary on a big screen TV, and suddenly your cat is looking at a predator, not prey.
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