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Finder

//ˈfaɪndə(ɹ)// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who finds or discovers something.

    "Finders keepers, losers weepers."

  2. 2
    optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest wordnet
  3. 3
    A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.

    "Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune."

  4. 4
    someone who is the first to observe something wordnet
  5. 5
    A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living. UK, historical

    "Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext."

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  1. 6
    someone who comes upon something after searching wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English findere, equivalent to find + -er.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Finder.

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