framer

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US/ˈfɹeɪmɚ/

noun

A person who makes frames for paintings.

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

nounframer (plural framers)

plural framers

  1. A person who makes frames for paintings.
  2. A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
  3. USA person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
  4. A person who writes a new law.
    1. UScapitalizedhistoricalplural normallysometimesgovernmentAny of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

      the Framers of the Constitution

      1 more example

      In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.

      2025 February 7, David Smith, quoting Lawrence R. Jacobs, “‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  5. A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
  6. InternetA person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.

    The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.

    2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116

Origin

Translations

German Gesetzgeber, Gesetzgeberin
  • Gesetzgeberlegislator
  • Gesetzgeberinlegislator
  • Gesetzschreiberlegislator
Italian corniciaio
  • corniciaiopicture framer
Polish ramiarz
  • ramiarzpicture framer
Swedish timmerman, rammakare
  • timmermantimber framer
  • rammakarepicture framer
  • lagstiftarelegislator
Turkish çerçeveci, çerçeveci
  • çerçevecitimber framer
  • çerçevecipicture framer

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APA

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MLA

“framer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/framer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “framer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/framer.

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