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webster

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A weaver of cloth.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A weaver.

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

  • noun obsolete A weaver; originally, a female weaver.

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

  • noun obsolete A weaver; originally, a female weaver.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun United States lexicographer (1758-1843)
  • noun United States politician and orator (1782-1817)
  • noun English playwright (1580-1625)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English webbestre, feminine of webba, weaver, from webb, web; see webh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Anglo-Saxon webbestre. See web, weave, and -ster.

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. weaver

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. Pol.
  2. dramatist
  3. lexicographer
  4. lexicologist
  5. playwright
  6. political leader
  7. politician
  8. politico

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. Bernd
  2. DBA
  3. Meyer
  4. laterthis
  5. pontifex
  6. religion
  7. rix
  8. self-pronouncing
  9. shyla
  10. tentativeness
  11. valley

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