arch·er

(är′chər)

1. One that shoots with a bow and arrow.

2. Archer See Sagittarius.

[Middle English, from Old French archier, from Late Latin arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, maker of bows, from Latin arcus, bow.]

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archer

(ˈɑːtʃə)

(Military) a person skilled in the use of a bow and arrow

[C13: from Old French archier, from Late Latin arcārius, from Latin arcus bow]

Archer

(ˈɑːtʃə)

(Astronomy) the Archer the constellation Sagittarius, the ninth sign of the zodiac

Archer

(ˈɑːtʃə)

1. (Biography) Frederick Scott. 1813–57, British inventor and sculptor. He developed (1851) the wet collodion photographic process, enabling multiple copies of pictures to be made

2. (Biography) Jeffrey (Howard), Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare. born 1940, British novelist and Conservative politician. He was an MP from 1969 until 1974. His novels include Kane and Abel (1979), Honour Among Thieves (1993), and The Fourth Estate (1996): from 2001 to 2003 he was imprisoned for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice

3. (Biography) William. 1856–1924, Scottish critic and dramatist: made the first English translations of Ibsen

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arch•er

(ˈɑr tʃər)

n.

1. a person who shoots with a bow and arrow.

2. (cap.) the constellation or sign of Sagittarius.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French archier < Late Latin arcuārius=arcu(s) bow (see arc) + -ārius -ary]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	archer - a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow bowman expert - a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully longbowman - a medieval English archer who used a longbow
	2.	Archer - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius Sagittarius individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" astrology, star divination - a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon
	3.	Archer - the ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21 Sagittarius the Archer, Sagittarius

archer

noun bowman (archaic), toxophilite (formal) infantry, archers and cavalrymen

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Translations

رامي السِّهام

lukostřeleclučištník

bueskytte

íjász

bogmaîur, bogaskytta

arciere

lankininkasšaudymas iš lanko

strēlnieks

bueskytter

łuczniczkałucznik

arqueiro

лучник

lukostrelec

okçu

弓箭手

archer

[ˈɑːtʃəʳ] N → arquero/a m/f

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archer

[ˈɑː^rtʃə^r] n → archer m

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archer

n → Bogenschütze m → /-schützin f; (Astron, Astrol) → Schütze m

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archer

[ˈɑːtʃəʳ] n → arciere m

archer

(ˈaːtʃə) noun

a person who shoots with a bow and arrows.

ˈarchery noun

the art or sport of shooting with a bow.

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Four days hence, in Finsbury Fields, our good King Henry, of great renown, holdeth a grand shooting match, and all the most famous archers of merry England will be thereat.

Along the end of the meadow stood the booths for the different bands of archers, for the King's yeomen were divided into companies of fourscore men, and each company had a captain over it; so on the bright greensward stood ten booths of striped canvas, a booth for each band of the royal archers, and at the peak of each fluttered a flag in the mellow air, and the flag was the color that belonged to the captain of each band.

When all was quiet a bugle sounded, and straightway the archers came marching in order from their tents.

So Sir Hugh spoke, and when he had done all the archers waved their bows aloft and shouted.

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Down along one end were pitched gaily colored tents for the different bands of King's archers. There were ten of these bands, each containing a score of men headed by a captain of great renown; so to-day there were ten of the pavilions, each bearing aloft the Royal Arms and vari-colored pennants which fluttered lightly in the fresh morning breeze.

The royal party had not yet put in an appearance, nor were any of the King's archers visible.

Lords and ladies of the realm followed; and finally, the ten companies of archers, whose progress round the field was greeted with hardly less applause than that given the King himself.

The tenscore archers ranged themselves in two long rows on each side of the lists--a gallant array--while their captains, as a special mark of favor, stood near the royal box.

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Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment.

But they had; they undoubtedly had; for the low- toned comments behind him left no doubt in Archer's mind that the young woman was May Welland's cousin, the cousin always referred to in the family as "poor Ellen Olenska." Archer knew that she had suddenly arrived from Europe a day or two previously; he had even heard from Miss Welland (not disapprovingly) that she had been to see poor Ellen, who was staying with old Mrs.

Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned his eyes toward the Mingott box.

Few things seemed to Newland Archer more awful than an offence against "Taste," that far-off divinity of whom "Form" was the mere visible representative and vicegerent.

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