Other forms: fishermen, fishermans
A fisherman is a person who catches fish for a living. A local fisherman, the fisherman's catch, ask the fisherman.
It is among the most dangerous jobs there is, with a death rate many times the average for any work ashore. Fisher is increasingly used instead, because women fish too, and the industry itself has moved that way in official use.
1nounfishermanA person who catches fish for a living.
“The old fisherman went out in his boat every morning before sunrise.”
fisherman is a job.
Proto-Indo-European
*mon-
Middle English
man
English
man
English, today
fisherman
From fisher + -man. man comes from Middle English man. From Middle English man, from Old English mann (“human being, person, man”), from Proto-West Germanic mann, from Proto-Germanic mann- (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European mon- (“human being, man”). a doublet of mann and Manu. 1
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