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Definition of Hitter
1. Noun. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Ballplayer, Baseball Player
Specialized synonyms: Bunter, Designated Hitter, Pinch Hitter, Switch-hitter, Whiffer
Derivative terms: Bat, Slug
2. Noun. Someone who hits. "Blacksmiths are good hitters"
Generic synonyms: Mover
Specialized synonyms: Slapper, Spanker, Walloper
Derivative terms: Hit, Strike, Strike
Definition of Hitter
1. n. One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.
Definition of Hitter
1. Noun. Agent noun of hit; one who hits. ¹
2. Noun. (baseball) One who comes up to bat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hitter
1. one that hits [n -S] - See also: hits
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitter
Literary usage of Hitter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"Art. VI.—ART UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 1. Die Wiener Genesis. By Wilhelm, hitter
von Hartel, ... hitter ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1904)
"056. hitter almond, solvent action on iodine, 27, 391. hitter almonds. ... 1027.
hitter almonds, adulteration. 21. 254. 323. hitter almonds, adulteration ..."
3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"In 188.5 he joined hands with Daniel I'rohman, assuming the management of the
hitter's productions of the Lyceum Theatre, and here he collaborated ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1889)
"Abstractly, t lie hitter would be regarded as the synthesis of the two universal
antitheses which make up all phenomena.* The symbolic representation of Yin ..."
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