Meaning of -er | Babel Free
əDefinitions
- Used to form diminutives.
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually one syllable of the given name.)
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Indicates a correspondence or coincidence between the action or condition indicated by the root and the noun being described.
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
Equivalents
Examples
“read + -er → reader”
“cook + -er → cooker”
“compute + -er → computer”
“run + -er → runner”
“toast + -er → toaster”
“swim + -er → swimmer”
“do good + -er → do-gooder”
“look + -er → looker (“an attractive person”)”
“keep + -er → keeper (“a person or thing worth keeping”)”
“astrology + -er → astrologer”
“baby boom + -er → baby boomer”
“conlang + -er → conlanger”
“cricket + -er → cricketer”
“trumpet + -er → trumpeter”
“zine + -er → ziner”
“six + -er → sixer”
“six foot + -er → six-footer”
“three-wheel + -er → three-wheeler”
“first grade + -er → first grader”
“percent + -er → percenter (“commission agent”)”
“one hand + -er → one-hander (“one-man show”)”
“oat + -er → oater (“a Western-themed movie”)”
“birth + -er → birther”
“flat earth + -er → flat-earther”
“truth + -er → truther”
“woke + -er → woker”
“bacon + -er → baconer (“pig raised for bacon”)”
“chocolate chip + -er → chocolate chipper (“cookie containing chocolate chips”)”
“sternwheel + -er → sternwheeler (“vessel driven by a sternwheel”)”
“piss + -er → pisser (“a hilariously funny event or situation”)”
“New York + -er → New Yorker”
“London + -er → Londoner”
“Dublin + -er → Dubliner”
“New England + -er → New Englander”
“island + -er → islander”
“highland + -er → highlander”
“East End + -er → East-Ender”
“childer, calver, lamber, linder ("loins")”
“hard + -er → harder”
“wet + -er → wetter”
“motley + -er → motlier”
“eerie + -er → eerier”
“clayey + -er → clayier”
“twitter, clamber, bicker, mutter, wander, flutter, flicker, slither, smother, sputter”
“disclaim + -er → disclaimer”
“remit + -er → remitter”
“misname + -er → misnomer”
“rebut + -er → rebutter”
“attain + -er → attainder”
“shive + -er → shiver”
“slive + -er → sliver”
“splint + -er → splinter”
“association + -er → soccer (“association football”)”
“football + -er → footer (“association football”)”
“rugby + -er → rugger”
“Radcliffe + -er → Radder (“a building at Oxford University”)”
“clive + -er → cliver (“apt to cleave or adhere to, tenacious, expert as seizing”)”
“slip + -er → slipper (“tending to make slip, slippery”)”
“wake + -er → waker (“tending to wake, watchful”)”
“Li’er said hello to his father.”
“Yue’er began to laugh again and her tears shimmered like dew on a lotus leaf disturbed by a breeze. Then we heard a sound. It was Man’er.”
“The fish was laid out on the table, but Ping’er had not come back, nor had his father.”
“Ying’er was not yet three years old. Li’er had always been the one to play with her or to carry her places on his back.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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