Definition

1. Noun:
   • An animal trainer who takes wild animals and makes them less wild, more obedient, or safe to be around: A "tamer" is a person whose job is to train and control wild animals, often for performance or work.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The lion tamer entered the cage with a whip and a chair.
  • She worked as a tiger tamer for a famous circus.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: The word can be used figuratively to describe someone who controls or calms a difficult or chaotic situation.
  • As the new manager, he was the tamer of the unruly department.
• "Lion tamer": A common compound term for a specialist who trains and performs with lions.
  • The lion tamer's act was the most thrilling part of the show.

Variants and Related Words

• Tame (verb): To make a wild animal not wild or dangerous; to bring under control.
  • It is very difficult to tame a wild horse.
• Tame (adjective): (Of an animal) not wild or dangerous, either naturally or because of training; (of a situation) not exciting or challenging.
  • The deer in the park are quite tame. / He found his new job rather tame.
• Tameable/Tamable (adjective): Able to be tamed.
  • Not all wild creatures are considered tamable.

Synonyms

• Animal trainer: A general term for someone who trains animals.
• Beastmaster: A literary or archaic term for someone who controls animals.
• Handler: A person who trains and controls an animal, especially a dog or a performing animal.

Related Phrases

• To tame the wilderness: An idiomatic phrase meaning to bring a wild, uncultivated area under human control and cultivation.
  • The pioneers worked for decades to tame the wilderness.

Noun

1. an animal trainer who tames wild animals