gamekeeper

gamekeeper

See also: game keeper and game-keeper

English

Etymology

From game +‎ keeper.

Noun

gamekeeper (plural gamekeepers)

  1. A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects.
    Alternative forms: game keeper, game-keeper
    Hypernyms: keeper (elliptically synonymous) < person
    Hyponym: master of game
    Coordinate term: game warden
    • 1960 March, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
      The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or to put an end to their operations by force."

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