Noun: fisher
| Singular | fisher |
| Plural | fishers |
Sample Sentences
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The fishers who live here left for the mainland only days ago as an unseasonable October storm ravaged the islands. [2021 December 26, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 43, column 1:]
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Yet every fisher that Dzugan knows, and every fisher elsewhere, too, knows someone who has died at sea or had a near miss. […] But they are also the reasons for the safety campaigns, for the constant and valiant attempts to persuade fishers to wear lifejackets at work, to figure out how to get someone overboard back on the vessel, to carry ladders or gaffers that someone can grab on to. [2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025:]
Nouns inflected like fisher
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fischer, fischare, from Old English fisċere (“fisher”), from Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz (“fisher”), equivalent to fish + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fisker (“fisher”), West Frisian fisker (“fisher”), Dutch visser (“fisher”), German Low German Fisker, Fisser (“fisher”), German Fischer (“fisher”), Danish fisker (“fisher”), Swedish fiskare (“fisher”). See: Middle English Nouns '
fischer', Old English Nouns '
fisċere', Dutch Nouns '
visser', German Nouns '
Fischer', Danish Nouns '
fisker', Swedish Nouns '
fiskare'.