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archer

arch·er
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ahr-cher]
    • /ˈɑr tʃər/
    • /ˈɑː.tʃər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ahr-cher]
    • /ˈɑr tʃər/

Definitions of archer word

  • countable noun archer An archer is someone who shoots arrows using a bow. 3
  • noun archer a person skilled in the use of a bow and arrow 3
  • noun archer Frederick Scott. 1813–57, British inventor and sculptor. He developed (1851) the wet collodion photographic process, enabling multiple copies of pictures to be made 3
  • noun archer Jeffrey (Howard), Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare. born 1940, British novelist and Conservative politician. He was an MP from 1969 until 1974. His novels include Kane and Abel (1979), Honour Among Thieves (1993), and The Fourth Estate (1996): from 2001 to 2003 he was imprisoned for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice 3
  • noun archer William. 1856–1924, Scottish critic and dramatist: made the first English translations of Ibsen 3
  • noun archer a person who shoots with bow and arrow; bowman 3

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Origin of archer

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French archier < Late Latin arcuārius, equivalent to arcu-, stem of arcus bow (see arc) + -ārius -ary

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Parts of speech for Archer

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

archer popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

archer usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for archer

noun archer

  • mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
  • suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
  • abba — father (used of God)
  • diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
  • miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.

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