Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who spells words.
- noun An elementary textbook containing exercises that teach spelling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A speaker or talker; a teller; a narrator.
- noun One who spells, as in school; a person skilled in spelling.
- noun A book containing exercises or instructions in spelling; a spelling-book.
- noun A branch shooting out from the crown of a deer's antler. See cut under
Dama. Cotgrave .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who spells.
- noun United States A spelling book.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
spells . - noun A participant in a
spelling bee . - noun US A
book for learningspellings .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an introductory textbook to teach spelling
- noun someone who spells words
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Examples
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We suspect you're a person who trusts more easily than we do, Jennifer, what with the volunteering and the trusting Michelle Shaw and the fact that you think calling her a "very bad speller" is an adequate insult.
With Northwest's Help, Ticket Scammer Ruins College Student's Volunteer Trip - The Consumerist 2008
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The book which she had mistakenly brought for her speller was her mental arithmetic; they were much the same size, and she often mistook one for the other.
Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902
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I know I'm not a great speller, which is why I put everything through a spell checker.
Skeptico Skeptico 2008
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Meanwhile, the publisher of the daily paper Minerva, Noah Webster -- of Webster's "speller" fame -- tired of the rough-and-tumble of journalism and withdrew from public life altogether.
Newspaper Wars 2009
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Nicole Black of the excellent New York legal blog Sui Generis has found her kind of speller Read More
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Queen herself was by no means so good a "speller," by our standard, as was Adam Winthrop.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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If a destination (or a phone number) needs to be entered manually, this is done with a new, circular "speller" that makes the entry go more quickly.
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Tracy S. Morris is a writer, photographer, gardener, herbalist and self-proclaimed kamikaze speller.
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Tracy S. Morris is a writer, photographer, gardener, herbalist and self-proclaimed kamikaze speller.
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Until you are the best speller in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Laurence Hughes: The Battle Hymn of the Tigger Mother Laurence Hughes 2011
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