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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer.

   "a table decker"

2. 2
   Something having a certain number of levels.

   "We traveled in a double-decker bus."

3. 3
   (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname from German.
2. 2
   A male given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

thomas decker

Example

More examples

"Benedito will ride the double decker bus in London."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From deck (verb) + -er.

Etymology 2

From deck (noun) + -er.

Related phrases

double-deckersingle-deckertable-deckerthree-deckertriple-deckertwo-decker

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.