Reindeer

Quick meaning: Reindeer is a noun meaning (plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.

Meaning

(plural: reindeer) Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.

More Meanings

1. (plural: reindeers, biology) Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.
2. To herd or farm reindeer

Example Sentences

Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by nine reindeer

Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold up the train while they cross the unfenced line to reach their feeding grounds.

Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.

The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.

Word Forms

• reindeers
• reindeering
• reindeered

Synonyms for reindeer

Depending on context, synonyms include caribou.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include caribou, elk, deer, antler, herding, herd.

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