Meanings
plural absconders
- A person who absconds.First known use First attested in the late 17th century.
Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.
1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 1123 more examples
[…] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace.
1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]
1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade”, in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, page 33He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder.
2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
- Proto-Italic*ap
- Latinab
- Latinabs-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁t
- Latincondō
- Latinabscondō
- Middle Frenchabscondre
- Latinabscondō
- Englishabscond
- Englishabsconder
Translations
Dutch drosser
- drosserone who absconds
German Ausreißer, Flüchtiger
- Ausreißerone who absconds
- Flüchtigerone who absconds
Hindi भगोड़ा
- भगोड़ा (bhagoṛā)one who absconds
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with absconder
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absconder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/absconder
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