Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who desires, asks, or calls for; one who wishes or craves.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who desires, asks, or wishes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who desires, asks, or wishes.

Etymologies

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to desire + -er

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Examples

  • Desiring the better isn't coming from a "desirer".

    The Zoom of Abandon 2007

  • Thanks senator Al Franken we the voters of CT con not stop him, but at least you did not give him additional time to parade his self fish desirer.

    Franken takes on Lieberman as tensions builds in Senate 2009

  • That and the fact that if they overload the system, it might fail and then they can impose that facist state that they so desirer.

    Boehner: ‘where are the jobs?’ - California_Yankee’s blog - RedState 2009

  • A tension exists between the chase and elusion, the object and the desirer, with the passive and the aggressive personalities becoming interchangeable.

    Buzzine » Waking Dreams 2009

  • They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, that is very true from a love perspective, when you are not there the love grows stronger, and heart makes more desirer for that person.

    The Less you Talk, The More you will Love 2008

  • My favours are the longing of the lover and the delight of the desirer; for I am goodly of shape, sweet of smile and graceful as the bending willow-wand or the rattan-cane375 or the stalk of the basil-plant; nor is there any can compare with me in loveliness, even as saith one of me,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Ya plus qu'a attendre Raito qui se fait vraiment desirer!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • We take the individual, qua believer and desirer, as we find h/er.

    Public Justification D'Agostino, Fred 2007

  • This was the time for acquaintances to mend their rifts, for the desirer to "accidentally" encounter the desired, for commercially minded men to exchange stock suggestions and the odd racing tips, and all the while advertising their most precious asset — their marriageable daughters.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • The surgeon in attendance having taken charge of this unfortunate warrior, we rode off to the review where Ney and Eugene were on duty at the head of their respective divisions; and where, by the way, Cambaceres, as the French say, “se faisait desirer.”

    Burlesques 2006

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