Breadcrumb Home > Thesaurus > R Synonyms of retriever Find synonyms for: Noun1. retriever, sporting dog, gun dogusage: a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve gameWordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.Definition and meaning of retriever (Dictionary) ✖ Related Content Daily Word Quiz: tendentious Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language