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Definitions of deer

1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. Webster Dictionary DB

2. distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. A quadruped of various species, as the red-deer, elk, &c. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

4. A fleet ruminant, as the moose, elk, and reindeer. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

5. A quadruped of several species, as the stag, the fallow deer, &e. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

Usage examples for deer

1. He lives in a brick house with a slate roof and two towers, and has a deer and fountain and lots of nice shade trees in the yard. – Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

2. Deer stalking was bad in her imagination. – An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope