Definition of Animal trainer

1. Noun. One who trains or exhibits animals.

Exact synonyms: Handler
Specialized synonyms: Tamer
Generic synonyms: Trainer
Derivative terms: Handle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animal Trainer

animal psychology
animal rights
animal scientist
animal shelter
animal skin
animal soap
animal spirits
animal starch
animal structures
animal stuffer
animal technicians
animal testing
animal testing alternatives
animal tissue
animal toxin
animal trainer (current term)
animal virus
animal viruses
animal welfare
animalcula
animalcular
animalcules
animalculist
animalculists
animalculum
animalian
animalic

Literary usage of Animal trainer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1874)
"... the Comedian—Bisset, the animal trainer—Powell, the Fire- Eater — Roger Smith, the Bell-Player — Suppression of Southwark Fair. ..."

2. The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1874)
"... the Comedian—Bisset, the animal trainer—Powell, the Fire- Eater — Roger Smith, the Bell-Player — Suppression of Southwark Fair ..."

3. The Old Showmen, and the London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1875)
"... Comedians — Evans, the Wire- Walker—Southwark Fair—Wax-work Show—Shuter, the Comedian—Bisset, the animal trainer—Powell, the Fire- Eater— Koger Smith, ..."

4. A Montessori Mother by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912)
"Is there, in the motives which actuate our attempts at securing obedience from children, a trace of the animal-trainer's instinct? ..."

5. The Charles Mills Gayley Anniversary Papers: Contributed by Former Students by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, Charles Mills Gayley (1922)
"... had been an animal trainer—as if that could account for the peaceful procession of a fierce lion from tavern to tavern! ..."

6. Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies by Edward Lee Thorndike (1911)
"Any reputable animal trainer would be ashamed to exhibit a horse who could not do as much ' counting ' as that. The maximum of delicacy in associating ..."

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