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Definition: Fortune Hunter |
Fortune HunterNoun1. A person who seeks wealth through marriage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Fortune Hunter (1927) Foiling a Fortune Hunter (1912) Fortune Hunter (1994) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sam Pitman's big production, A fortune hunter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fortune hunter | 6 |
buried fascinating fortune hunter island pirate treasure treasure world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fortune hunter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri që kërkon të pasurohet nëpërmjet martes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | зестрогонец (gold digger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lovec bohatství. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mitgiftjäger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προικοθήρας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hozományvadász. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortunefay unterhay vânãtor de zestre (gold digger). (various references) охотник за приданым (fortune-hunter). (various references) lovac na miraz. (various references) lycksökare (adventurer, oppurtunist). (various references) servet avcısı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-n-n-o-r-r-t-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: fourteenth. | |
-4 letters: thereunto. | |
-5 letters: enthrone, fourteen, frotteur, hereunto, nontruth, northern, rottener, therefor, unfetter, untether, unthrone. | |
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