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Definition: Eater |
EaterNoun1. Someone who consumes food for nourishment. 2. Any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good eaters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EaterSynonyms: devourer (n), feeder (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Blusterer | Noun: blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler; fanfaron; braggart; (boaster); bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer; Mohock, Mohawk; drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos; jingo; desperado, dare-devil, fire eater; fury; (violent person); rowdy; slang-whanger, tough. |
Combatant | Noun: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough. |
Courage | Man, man of mettle; hero, demigod, Amazon, Hector; lion, tiger, panther, bulldog; fighting-cock; bully, fire eater. |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater, fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant. |
Irascibility | Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater; (blusterer); fury; (violent person). |
Rashness | Desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer. |
Violence | Berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater; (blusterer). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eater |
| English words defined with "eater": dunker ♦ Gormand, Gormandizer, Guttler ♦ Meliphagan ♦ secretary bird ♦ Trencher-man ♦ vegetarian, Viander ♦ Wurraluh. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eater": BEEF EATER ♦ Cormoran' ♦ FUBAR ♦ Hearty meal, Hunger seasons Food ♦ KNIGHT OF THE TRENCHER ♦ Monophagous ♦ NSA line eater ♦ PSIDIUM GUJAVA ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, ROMP ♦ Stimulants of Great Men ♦ TOAD EATER ♦ William. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eater": Viander. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And you, eater of worlds, may you taste our righteous fire and choke on it (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) Piccolo, you bone-headed spaghetti eater, that was Fake Draw Screen Right (Brian's Song; writing credit: Gale Sayers; Al Silverman) Dopey pappy sheet eater. (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut; writing credit: Trey Parker; Matt Stone) A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-servicable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition (King Lear; writing credit: William Shakespeare) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Biscuit Eater (1972) Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) The Grass Eater (1961) Purple People Eater (1988) | |
Song Titles | Purple People Eater (performing artist: Sheb Wooley) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate 174. The Bluefish. Pomatomus saltatrix (L.), Gill. The Cobia or Crab- Eater. Elacate Canada (L.), Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Benjn. Marriot, the great Eater. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Indian glass eater, state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Eater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.18% of the time. "Eater" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.18% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.82% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 88 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eater": ant eater ♦ Barnacle eater ♦ be a poor eater ♦ be a small eater ♦ bee eater ♦ big eater ♦ Caterpillar eater ♦ fire eater ♦ Frog eater ♦ great eater ♦ he is a tremendous eater ♦ heart eater ♦ honey eater ♦ insect eater ♦ Light eater ♦ line eater ♦ lotus eater ♦ Maize eater ♦ man eater ♦ nsa line eater ♦ opium eater ♦ plantain eater ♦ plasma eater ♦ seed eater ♦ serpent eater ♦ sin eater ♦ snake eater ♦ snow eater ♦ spawn eater ♦ stone eater ♦ swashbuckler fire eater ♦ wattled honey eater. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eater": cherry-eater, meat-eater. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
weed eater | 1,005 | ryobi weed eater | 46 |
cum eater | 579 | sperm eater | 43 |
3 eater gear metal snake solid | 505 | ass eater | 41 |
snake eater | 147 | picky eater | 41 |
young cum eater | 141 | eater homelite weed | 38 |
weed eater part | 131 | scat eater | 37 |
eater gear metal snake solid | 112 | eater gear metal snake | 36 |
algae eater | 98 | man eater | 35 |
purple people eater | 96 | eater of the dead | 35 |
mosquito eater | 94 | bug eater | 34 |
cream eater pie | 87 | worm eater | 32 |
smoke eater | 77 | poop eater | 31 |
death eater | 71 | sin eater | 30 |
weed eater echo | 67 | odor eater | 29 |
3 eater gear metal snake solid trailer | 62 | eater mcculloch weed | 29 |
gay cum eater | 62 | weed eater featherlite | 29 |
poulan weed eater | 59 | eater stihl weed | 29 |
lotus eater | 49 | eater | 28 |
chinese algae eater | 28 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "eater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hamës (glutton, gormandiser), fruta pas buke. (various references) | |
Arabic | الآكل (feeder), أكول (pig). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който яде. (various references) | |
Chinese | 食者. (various references) | |
Czech | jedlík (gourmand, trencherman). (various references) | |
Danish | plasmaindfanger (plasma eater), ozonnedbryder (ozone depleter, ozone eater, ozone killer, ozone scavenger, ozone-damaging substance, ozone-depleting substance, ozone-modifying substance, ozone-reducing substance), fiskeædend (fish eater, fish-eating), chinook (chinooks, foehn, Foehn wind, snow eater). (various references) | |
Dutch | viseter (fish eater, fish-eating), visetend (fish eater, fish-eating), sneeuwvreters (snow eater), plasmafaag (plasma eater), ozonaantastende stof (ozone depleter, ozone eater, ozone killer, ozone scavenger, ozone-damaging substance, ozone-depleting substance, ozone-modifying substance, ozone-reducing substance). (various references) | |
Finnish | suursyömäri (big eater), plasmakaappari (plasma eater), otsonikerrosta tuhoava aine (ozone depleter, ozone eater, ozone killer, ozone scavenger, ozone-damaging substance, ozone-depleting substance, ozone-modifying substance, ozone-reducing substance). (various references) | |
French | mangeur, gourmand. (various references) | |
German | esser (diner, feeder, trencherman, trenchermen), fresser (devourer, devourers, glutton, greedy guts, overeater). (various references) | |
Greek | φαγάσ (trencherman), τρώγων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אוכל (food). (various references) | |
Hungarian | evő (feeder, pecker, trencherman, trenchermen). (various references) | |
Italian | mangiatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 犬食い (sloppy eater), 早飯 (early meal, fast eater), 少食家 (light eater), 大食漢 (glutton, great eater), アヘン常"者 (opium eater, opium smoker). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいしょくか" (glutton, great eater), しょうしょくか (light eater), いぬぐい (sloppy eater), アヘンじょうようしゃ (opium eater, opium smoker), はやめし (early meal, fast eater). (various references) | |
Korean | 먹" 사람. (various references) | |
Manx | eeder (consumer, devourer, diner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | comedor. (various references) | |
Romanian | mâncãtor (feeder, glutton). (various references) | |
Russian | едок (feeder, pecker, trencherman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osoba koja jede. (various references) | |
Spanish | tener siempre buen apetito. (various references) | |
Swedish | person som äter, -ätare, ätäpple. (various references) | |
Thai | นัก"ับเพลิง (smoke eater). (various references) | |
Turkish | yiyen kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їдок, їдець (feeder, mouth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ăn quả ăn tươi. (various references) | |
Welsh | bwytawr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lobodon carcinophagus, Merops apiaster, Musophagidae, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, Myrmecophagidae, Pholidota, RM:magliavieul, Tachyglossidae, Tamandua tetradactyla chapadensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Panta ta ocurwmata sou sukai skopouV ecousai ean saleuqwsin kai pesountai eiV stoma esqontoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnes munitiones tuae sicuti ficus cum grossis suis si concussae fuerint cadent in os comedentis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Alle thi strengthis as a fijge tree, with his vnripe fijgis; yif thei shuln be smyten to gydre, thei shuln falle in to the mouth of the etynge. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | All thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 12 |
| Albanian | Tërë fortesat e tua do të jenë si druri i fikut me fiq të parë; po t'i shkundësh, bien në gojë të atij që i ha. |
| Cebuano | Ang imong tanan nga mga dalangpanan mahimong ingon sa mga higuera uban sa nahaunang hinog nga bunga: kong sila pagauyogon, sila mangatagak ngadto sa baba sa kumakaon. |
| Croatian | Tvoje utvrde sve su kao smokvino stablo s urodom mladih smokava; kad se potrese stablo, smokve padaju u usta svakome koji ih želi jesti. |
| Danish | Alle dine Fæstninger er Figener og tidligmoden Frugt; når de rystes, falder de den spisende i Munden. |
| Dutch | Al uw vastigheden zijn vijgebomen met de eerste vruchten; indien zij geschud worden, zo vallen zij dien op den mond, die ze eten wil. |
| Finnish | Kaikki sinun varustuksesi ovat viikunapuita, joissa on varhaisviikunoita: jos niitä pudistellaan, ne putoavat syöjän suuhun. |
| French | Toutes tes forteresses Sont des figuiers avec les primeurs; Quand on les secoue, Elles tombent dans la bouche de qui veut les manger. |
| German | Alle deine festen Städte sind wie Feigenbäume mit reifen Feigen, die, wenn man sie schüttelt, dem ins Maul fallen, der sie essen will. |
| Hungarian | Minden erõsséged olyan, mint a zsenge gyümölcsû fügefa; ha megrázatnak, az evõ szájába hullnak. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Segala bentengmu akan seperti pohon ara yang penuh buah-buah yang masak. Jika pohon itu digoyang, buah-buahnya akan jatuh ke dalam mulut orang yang ingin memakannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala kota bentengmu seperti pokok ara dengan hulu buahnya; apabila digoncang maka gugurlah ia ke dalam mulut orang yang hendak makan dia. |
| Italian | Tutte le tue fortezze sono come fichi carichi di frutti primaticci: appena scossi, cadono i fichi in bocca a chi li vuol mangiare. |
| Maori | Ko ou pa taiepa katoa ka rite ki te piki he hua matamua nei ona: ki te rurerurea, ka taka ki roto ki te mangai o te tangata e kai ana. |
| Norwegian | Alle dine festninger er som fikentrær med tidlig moden frukt; rystes de, så faller fikenene i munnen på den som vil ete dem. |
| Portuguese | Todas as tuas fortalezas serão como figueiras com figos temporãos; sendo eles sacudidos, caem na boca do que os há de comer. |
| Rumanian | Toate cetqyuile tale sknt niwte smochini cu cele dintki roade; cknd ki scuturi, smochinele cad kn gura cui vrea sq le mqnknce. |
| Russian | чУЕ ХЛТЕ МЕОЙС ФЧПЙ П"П'ОЩ УНПЛПЧОЙ"Е УП У ЕМЩНЙ МП"БНЙ: ЕУМЙ ФТСИОХФШ ЙИ, ФП ПОЙ Х Б"ХФ ТСНП Ч ТПФ ЦЕМБАЭЕЗП ЕУФШ. |
| Spanish | Todas las fortificaciones son como higueras cargadas de higos: Si las sacuden, caerán en la boca del que los ha de comer. |
| Swedish | Alla dina fästen likna fikonträd med brådmogen frukt: vid minsta skakning falla de i munnen på den som vill äta dem. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eater": eateries, eaters, eatery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eater": amphitheater, anteater, beater, beefeater, bleater, cheater, defeater, drumbeater, eggbeater, feater, figeater, greater, heater, honeyeater, maltreater, neater, overeater, pleater, preheater, pretheater, reheater, repeater, retreater, seater, seedeater, superheater, sweater, theater, toadeater, treater. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eater": amphitheaters, anteaters, beaters, beefeaters, bleaters, cheaters, defeaters, drumbeaters, eggbeaters, figeaters, heaters, honeyeaters, maltreaters, overeaters, pleaters, preheaters, reheaters, repeaters, retreaters, seaters, seedeaters, superheaters, sweaterdress, sweaterdresses, sweaters, theatergoer, theatergoers, theatergoing, theatergoings, theaters, toadeaters, treaters. (additional references) | |
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"Eater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeteur, ater, eaker, earer, eastem, eastex, eastre, eatem, eatern, eather, eatier, Eator, Eatro, Eautel, eaver, eeer, eerate, efter, eisher, eite, eiter, emter, epater, erater, erator, etae, etar, eter, etre, euer, evatar, exter, exterp, eyate, Geater, Kater, peater, Teatre, yater. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eater" (pronounced ē"ter) |
| 3 | ē" t er | beater, cheater, Dieter, heater, liter, meter, neater, Peter, praetor, repeater, seater, Skeeter, sweeter, teeter, treater. |
| 2 | -t er | drifter, dumpster, duster, Easter, editor, educator, elater, elevator, embitter, enchanter, encounter, enter, accelerator, accelerometer, abductor, accumulator, activator, actor, actuator, adapter, adaptor, adjuster, administer, administrator, aflutter, after, agitator, aglitter, alabaster, alligator, allocator, altar, alter, alternator, altimeter, ammeter, Amphitheater, ancestor, anemometer, animator, anteater, applicator, appropriator, apter, arbiter, arbitrator, aster, attar, auditor, aviator, babysitter, backwater, banister, bannister, banter, barometer, barrister, barter, batter, beefeater, belter, benefactor, better, bettor, billeter, biter, bitter, blaster, Blatter, blister, blockbuster, blotter, blunter, bluster, bolster, Bolter, booster, breakwater, brighter, broadcaster, bullfighter, burgomaster, Buster, butter, calculator, canister, cannister, canter, Cantor, capacitor, captor, carburetor, carpenter, Carter, caster, Castor, cater, catheter, center, centimeter, centre, chapter, character, charter, chatter, chiropractor, clatter, cloister, cluster, clutter, coaster, cogenerator, collaborator, collector, Colter, comforter, commentator, communicator, commuter, compactor, comparator, competitor, computer, concertmaster, conciliator, conductor, connecter, connector, conservator, consolidator, conspirator, constrictor, constructor, contractor, contributor, converter, coordinator, cooter, copywriter, coster, Cotter, Coulter, counter, counterfeiter, Courter, covenanter, crater, creator, creditor, critter, curator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arete. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-r-t" | |
-1 letter: rate, rete, tare, tear, tree. | |
-2 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, rat, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aerate, aether, afreet, aretes, beater, berate, cerate, create, derate, easter, eaters, eatery, ecarte, elater, entera, ergate, feater, heater, hereat, neater, rebate, redate, reheat, relate, remate, repeat, reseat, retake, retape, reteam, retear, seater, teared, tearer, teaser, terrae. | |
+2 letters: abetter, accrete, acerate, adepter, aerated, aerates, aeriest, aethers, afreets, alerted, alerter, altered, alterer, ammeter, amreeta, arenite, ariette, atelier, aureate, austere, averted, beaters, berated, berates, beretta, bleater, breathe, catered, caterer, centare, cerated, cerates, cheater, created, creates, cremate, crenate, dearest, debater, derated, derates, dewater, draftee, earnest, earthed, earthen, eastern, easters, ecartes, elaters, emerita, emirate, enteral, entreat, ergates, estreat, etagere, eternal, exacter, exalter, excreta, extrema, feaster, feather, feature, fermate, ferrate, grantee, greaten, greater, haltere, hearted, hearten, heaters, heather, hectare, hektare, hetaera, iterate, leather, meatier, meerkat, metamer, nearest, negater, nervate, ocreate, operate, overate, overeat, pearter, peatier, petrale, pleater, predate, preheat, prelate, pretape, ratafee, ratteen, reacted, reagent, realest, realter, rebated, rebater, rebates, recheat, recrate, redated, redates, reenact, reflate, regrate, reheats, related, relater, relates, remated, remates, repeats, replate, reseats, reslate, restage, restate, retable, retaken, retaker, retakes, retaped, retapes, retaste, retaxed, retaxes, reteach, reteams, retears, retinae, retrace, retread, retreat, roseate, searest, seaters, sedater, seriate, serrate, stealer, steamer, sweater, tabered, tapered, taperer, tarweed, teacher, tearers, tearier, teasers, teaware, teleran, tempera, terefah, ternate, terrace, terrane, tessera, theater, theatre, thereat, thermae, trainee, trapeze, treacle, treaded, treader, treadle, treated, treater, veteran, watered, waterer, weather, wetware, whereat, wreathe. | |
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