Meaning of -er | Babel Free
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- 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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