bearer

Speech parts

1. bearer - Noun

2. Bearer - Proper noun

Meaning

Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.

A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant.

A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer.

One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

carrier holder messenger courier agent owner incumbent runner envoy conveyor possessor conveyer transporter pallbearer toter
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Antonyms

lord householder proprietress host receiver master
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Hypernyms

messenger courier capitalist traveler mourner griever

Phrases with the word

armour-bearer bearer bonds bearer shares ensign bearer case bearer tax bearer

Anagrams

rebear

Examples

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. Thomas Mann

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. B. W. Powe

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. Howard Thurman

We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God's image bearer. John Calvin

All that interests me is the grey areas, the passages and the tonal sequences, the pictorial spaces, overlaps and interlockings. If I had any way of abandoning the object as the bearer of this structure, I would immediately start painting abstracts. Gerhard Richter

Envy is a weight not placed by its bearer. Arabic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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