Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gives cheer or utters cheers; one who or that which gladdens.
- noun A glass of spirit and warm water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who, or a thing that
cheers - noun Northern England A glass of
spirit with warm water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a spectator who shouts encouragement
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Examples
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DR STEVE HAGEMOSER, TREATS PTSD VICTIMS IN IOWA: We don't use the word cheerer (ph) with our veterans, but we do like to let them know the truth that there is life after PTSD.
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I don't think he quite got close, though - for every cheerer at the press screening there was at least one booer, and the battle was on as the credits rolled.
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Fanny would certainly believe him so at least, and must find that her estimation of him was higher than ever when he appeared as the attendant, supporter, cheerer of a suffering brother.
Mansfield Park 2004
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The bard, as in duty bound, has addressed three long stanzas to Vich Ian Vohr of the Banners, enumerating all his great properties, and not forgetting his being a cheerer of the harper and bard — “a giver of bounteous gifts.”
Waverley 2004
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I put the files and the video aside, then dished up some spaghetti and settled down with it and a tape of Airplane! — my all-time favorite lunatic comedy movie and cheerer-upper.
The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989
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"You're an excellent 'cheerer-up,'" said Ann, later on, when he was going.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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She was not only, as a devoted wife, a cheerer of his heart, but, as a woman of accomplishment and ability, she was a companion for his mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various
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Hafiz can never be the guide, though he may be the cheerer of mortals, adding more to the gayety than to the wisdom of life.
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Frank said nothing, but his pitying face spoke for him; and the sick man, evidently touched by it, went on in a cheerer tone:
Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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This, and some other desultory conversation, served as a shoeing-horn to draw on another cup of ale and another cheerer, as Dinmont termed it in his country phrase, of brandy and water.
Chapter XXIV 1917
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