Dictionary

jaeger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈjeɪɡə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈjeɪɡəɹ/ (General-American)

Etymology

A borrowing from German Jäger (“hunter”). Related to English yacht. Compare yager, yagger.

Meanings

1. Any of three seabirds in the skua genus Stercorarius.
2. A hunter or hunter's attendant.
3. (historical) A rifle.
   • The jaeger was the creation of Central European gunsmiths ... 2007 January 16, David E. Petzal, “Rifle That Made America”, in Field and Stream, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021:
4. A sharpshooter, a rifleman, light infantry.
   • These were the mounted Hessian riflemen, the dreaded Jaegers. 2010, Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser, Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory (Historical Fiction), St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
   • St. Louis, however, was not a place where such things could be kept secret for long. By early March, Democratic papers carried reports of a terrifying new battalion known as the Black Jaegers -- 2011 Spring, Adam Goodheart, “Civil Warfare in the Streets”, in American Scholar, volume 80, number 2, pages 20–32:

Forms

Deriveds

Richardson's jaeger · parasitic jaeger · long-tailed jaeger · pomarine jaeger

Synonyms

skua (bird of the genus Stercorarius)

Translations (16)

fi kihu (seabird) · ru помо́рник (seabird) · fi metsästysopas (hunter's guide) · ru е́герь (soldier) · ast fernandón (seabird) · sv labb (seabird) · bg морелетник (seabird) · pl jegier (soldier) · da kjove (seabird) · fi jääkäri (soldier) · no jo (seabird) · fo kjógvi (seabird) · ast cágalu (seabird) · ru е́герь (hunter's guide) · is kjói (seabird) · bg егер (soldier)