Lurker

//ˈlɜː.kə//

Synonyms for "lurker" (2 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

18 translations across 8 languages.

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Danish

1 entries
  • lurer noun (someone who lurks)

Finnish

3 entries
  • lurkkaaja noun (user who observes rather than participates)
  • seurailija noun (user who observes rather than participates)
  • väijyjä noun (someone who lurks)

French

2 entries
  • rôdeur noun (someone who lurks)
  • rôdeuse noun (someone who lurks)

German

4 entries
  • Beobachter noun (someone who lurks)
  • Beobachter noun (user who observes rather than participates)
  • Lauerer noun (someone who lurks)
  • Lurker noun (user who observes rather than participates)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ROM (romu) noun (user who observes rather than participates)

Latin

1 entries
  • insidiātor noun (someone who lurks)

Spanish

4 entries
  • intruso noun (someone who lurks)
  • merodeador noun (someone who lurks)
  • mirón noun (someone who lurks)
  • observador noun (user who observes rather than participates)

Swedish

1 entries
  • lurkare noun (user who observes rather than participates)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?

Source: wiktionary

However, less than half of lurkers went online that often. Those who post also are more likely than lurkers to use the Internet for both work and pleasure. Posters use the Internet to communicate more with others than lurkers do.

Source: wiktionary

It’s not unusual for people to join video calls with their camera off and microphone muted, but such lurkers can at least be called upon to speak.

Source: wiktionary

In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’

Source: wiktionary

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