Crossword-Solution: DEFINER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Definer | n. | One who defines or explains. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| DEFINER | anagram | REFINED |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DEFINER”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Dictionary writer, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Explainer. | 1 answer |
| Giver of meaning | 1 answer |
| Lexicographer, at times | 1 answer |
| Noah Webster, for one | 1 answer |
| Expositor. | 8 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DEFINER (5)
After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made.
Engineer, broker, jurist, physician, moralist, theologian, and every man, inasmuch as he has any science, is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
Johnson has well remarked that "to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer"--which shall exclude all gnomic and satiric verse, and so debar the claims of Hesiod, Juvenal, and Boileau, it is impossible to deny that Pope is a true poet.
Various standards have been sought for it--the common usage of society being generally adopted--but it must always to a certain extent vary, according to the knowledge and approval of the definer.
She read aloud to her mother and said one column in a speller and definer, and Margaret taught her a little geography and arithmetic.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1942–2009).