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fisherman's

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Belonging to a fisherman, a person who catches fish for a living.

Detailed Definition
This possessive form points to the occupation of fishing and is used here to identify the boy by his family’s work. In older poetry, such occupational labels help sketch a social scene quickly.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tennyson’s “The Fisherman” begins, “O, well for the fisherman's boy,” joining labor and childhood play; “The fisherman’s net darkened the dawn” uses the possessive to make work tactile; In Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” the catch complicates any simple fisherman’s triumph; A coastal poem may hear “the fisherman’s radio crackle through fog”
Additional Notes
“fisherman’s” appears in the quoted line as an occupational label, and some readers may pause over the older, poem-specific social reference.; Found in the poem, Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Also Known As
angler's mariner's seafarer's fisher's
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