Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: deliverer
IPA transcription: [dɪl'ɪvɚɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: deliverer
    Meaning: a person who gives up or transfers money or goods
  • Synonyms: deliveryman, delivery_boy, deliverer
    Meaning: someone employed to make deliveries
  • Synonyms: savior, saviour, rescuer, deliverer
    Meaning: a person who rescues you from harm or danger
  • Synonyms: Jesus, Jesus_of_Nazareth, the_Nazarene, Jesus_Christ, Christ, Savior, Saviour, Good_Shepherd, Redeemer, Deliverer
    Meaning: a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)
Usage examples
  • But swifter still was the hand of the deliverer.
  • When Wapoota saw his deliverer, he ran to him, panting, and said--
  • At the door the Princess met him, and told her father this was her deliverer, on whom her heart was set.
  • The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
  • On her side she seemed quite bewildered, but she looked about her with happy eyes, and was not at all afraid of her deliverer.
  • Twilight had descended; night was drawing on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of darkness that they may escape from an anguish.
  • But would the English people, altogether unaccustomed to the interference of continental powers in English disputes, be inclined to look with favour on a deliverer who was surrounded by foreign soldiers?
  • Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.