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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who ponders or reflects; one who weighs in his mind.

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

  • noun One who ponders.

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  • noun A person who ponders; a thinker

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  • noun a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation

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Examples

  • Also, don't you mean that she should sue so that she never ever has to work again? "ponderer wrote," Democrats are reflexive cowards.

    Let's review this racism firing 2010

  • I am a ponderer and I love to linger over words, allowing a single sentence to speak to me.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Belinda 2008

  • At length he made an attempt to attract the attention of the silent and sullen ponderer.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • I am a ponderer and I love to linger over words, allowing a single sentence to speak to me.

    God Made Me Contemplative Belinda 2008

  • At the left of Montague sat Somers, lord keeper; older, of more steady demeanor, of fuller figure, of bold face and full light eye, a politician, not a ponderer.

    The Mississippi Bubble Emerson Hough 1890

  • Being susceptible to superstition and a ponderer on omens, Ralph Emsden often thought fretfully afterward on the double meaning of these words, and sought to displace them in their possible evil influence on his future by some assurance more cheerful and confident.

    The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • This unexpected, formidable _if_ flashing into his mind stopped the ponderer in his slow walk.

    The Saint Antonio Fogazzaro 1876

  • Now the mother of Kate and Undine was a great ponderer; and as she had, especially just then, nothing else to do, you may be sure how she pondered over the pretty scene of her two little ones and the motes in the sunbeam.

    Parables From Nature 1857

  • At length he made an attempt to attract the attention of the silent and sullen ponderer.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • I'm MaryAnn Johanson: writer and ponderer in New York City who drinks too much wine and thinks way too much about such inconsequences as movies, TV, books, and the meaning of life.

    FlickFilosopher.com 2010

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