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Noun pursuer has 2 senses
- pursuer(n = noun.person) chaser - a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers" has particulars: bounty hunter
- pursuer(n = noun.person) Array - a person who pursues some plan or goal; "a pursuer of truth" is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
is a kind of follower
Derived form verb pursue2
Derived form verb pursue1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pursuer, n.
- One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake. [1913 Webster]
- A plaintiff; a prosecutor. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
pursuer
addict, adherent, admirer, adorer, amorist, appendage, attendant, buff, bug, cavaliere servente, chaser, collector, courtier, dangler, demon, dependent, disciple, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, faddist, fan, fanatic, fiend, flunky, follower, following, freak, great one for, hanger-on, henchman, hobbyist, homme de cour, hound, hunter, infatuate, lover, nut, paramour, parasite, partisan, public, pursuant, pursuivant, quester, rhapsodist, satellite, sectary, seeker, shadow, stooge, successor, sucker for, suitor, supporter, tagtail, tail, trainbearer, visionary, votary, ward heeler, wooer, zealotROGET THESAURUS
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Pursuit
N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.
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