understander
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English understander, understondere, equivalent to understand + -er.
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Noun edit
understander (plural understanders)
- One who understands something.
- I am not a speed reader, I am a speed understander.
- 1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 166:
- "You knew Mr. Kampf intimately?"
"Yes, I guess so." She smiled as one understander to another.
- 2009 January 23, Virginia Heffernan, “Confessions of a TED Addict”, in New York Times[1]:
- These are the people of the brain, after all, the understanders.
Translations edit
one who understands
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Etymology 2 edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
understander (plural understanders)
- (circus, acrobatics) One who physically supports a formation of acrobats, as a human pyramid.
- Synonym: (US) bottom man
- He was a strongman and an understander for the acrobats.