Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which tames.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tames or subdues.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
tames orsubdues .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal trainer who tames wild animals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Liberty's right 100% about this site and keeping it PG or tamer is probably a good thing.
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Liberty's right 100% about this site and keeping it PG or tamer is probably a good thing.
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But he too was soon tamed and went on to star in tamer fare like the Doctor films, though he later escaped abroad to become an internationally acclaimed film actor.
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But he too was soon tamed and went on to star in tamer fare like the Doctor films, though he later escaped abroad to become an internationally acclaimed film actor.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Andy was what he himself called a tamer of wild ones, and he was hard upon his riding gear.
The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905
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A professor of mine in college asked us once, “When you go to the circus, and you see a lion and a lion tamer, which is the one with the real power?”
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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A professor of mine in college asked us once, “When you go to the circus, and you see a lion and a lion tamer, which is the one with the real power?”
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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Does she possess, then, what is called tamer's magnetism?
The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901
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In 2009, another Super Bowl ad - which Mr. Biderman described as tamer than their latest - was rejected by NBC.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TREVOR MELANSON 2011
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Granted, he accomplished that be creating even more despicable Nazis that make the "tamer" soldiers pale by comparison.
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