English
Etymology
From game + keeper.
Noun
gamekeeper (plural gamekeepers)
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
person employed to maintain the game
- Armenian: անտառապահ (hy) (antaṙapah)
- Bulgarian: лесничей (bg) m (lesničej)
- Czech: hajný (cs) m
- Dutch: jachtopzichter (nl) m, jachtopziener (nl) m, jachtmeester (nl) m
- Finnish: riistanhoitaja
- French: garde-chasse (fr) m or f
- Georgian: დამცველი (damcveli), მეტყევე (meṭq̇eve), ეგერი (egeri)
- German: Wildhüter m, Wildhüterin f
- Hungarian: vadőr (hu)
- Italian: guardacaccia (it) m, guardiacaccia (it) m
- Macedonian: ловочу́вар m (lovočúvar)
- Middle English: warenner
- Piedmontese: guardacassa m
- Polish: gajowy (pl) m, leśniczy (pl) m, łowczy (pl) m
- Portuguese: couteiro (pt) m, guarda-caça m or f, monteiro (pt) m
- Romanian: paznic de vânătoare m, pădurar (ro) m
- Russian: е́герь (ru) m (jégerʹ), лесни́к (ru) m (lesník)
- Serbo-Croatian: lovočuvar (sh) m
- Spanish: guardabosque (es) m or f, alimañero (es) m, guardacaza m
- Swedish: viltvårdare c
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