Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wearer
IPA transcription: [w'ɛɹɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wearer
    Meaning: a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory; "the wearer of the crown"
Usage examples
  • It serves thus to mark its wearer as one engaged in delicate tasks or as a person of leisure.
  • His accomplice, the wearer of the neat boots, had come to wait for him on the edge of the lake with the bicycle.
  • He was a crippled old mountain man, with a profound contempt for "tenderfeet," a contempt that in my case was accentuated by the fact that I wore spectacles--which at that day and in that region were usually held to indicate a defective moral character in the wearer.
  • The cut of his clothes would have made him pass for an elegant man, if those clothes had not been torn to shreds; still they did not show signs of wear, and the fine cloth, beneath the careful hands of the prisoner, soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat.