Lancer
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
- 2 (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance wordnet
- 3 Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
- 4 One who lances something.
"The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]"
Antonyms
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More examples"The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]"
Etymology
From French lancier (“lancer”).