stalker

Meaning

1. A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
2. A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
3. Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
4. Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
5. (obsolete) A kind of fishing net.
6. A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.

Synonyms

sneak

prowler

hunter

lurcher

lurker

marcher

molester

pursuer

strider

uninvited

one who takes by surprise

ambusher

stealthy pursuer

harasser

Translations

rôdeur

acosador

perseguidor

stalker

Stalker

κυνηγός

Verfolger

Pirschjäger

Stalkerin

βαδίζων

πλησιάζων

persécuteur

traqueur

admirateur monomaniaque

traqueur maniaque

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stalkere

In summary

From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk + -er.