Finder
//ˈfaɪndə(ɹ)// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who finds or discovers something.
"Finders keepers, losers weepers."
- 2 optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest wordnet
- 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 someone who is the first to observe something wordnet
- 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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- 6 someone who comes upon something after searching wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from German.
Example
More examples"I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English findere, equivalent to find + -er.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from German Finder.
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