oliver

See also: Oliver, Olivér, and Óliver

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɪvɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒlɪvə/

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• Hyphenation: ol‧i‧ver

Noun

oliver (plural olivers)

1. (archaic, rare) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
   • 1903, John Cotton, Chimes and Rhymes, page 66:

     I hear, with the song that she sings me in lullaby tones, / The noise of the nailshops, the ringing of hammers, the groans / Of deep-heaving bellows, the "oliver's" thud on the die, […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oliver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• violer, virole

Catalan

Etymology

From oliva +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.liˈβe]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.liˈve]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.liˈveɾ]

Noun

oliver m (plural olivers)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: olivera

Further reading

• “oliver” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oliver”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “oliver” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oliver” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Swedish

Noun

oliver

1. indefinite plural of oliv