Meanings
plural polishers
- A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
- A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
Where do you keep the floor-polisher?
Synonyms: polishing machine
- A person who refines something.
a polisher of stories
1 more example
When he had repoſed four years and four months in the boſom of care, rocked in the cradle of proſperity, he was brought forth, according to the cuſtom of true believers, and committed to the charge of moralifts of high fame, poliſhers of noble manners, and ſearchers of true knowledge, that they might cultivate his heaven-born genius, and teach him with dignity to rule that world which he was born to command[.]
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan polidor, polidora
- polidorperson who makes something smooth and shiny
- polidoratool
- polidoramachine
- polidorperson who refines
Finnish kiillottaja, kiillotin
- kiillottajaperson who makes something smooth and shiny
- kiillotintool
- kiillotinmachine
- kiillotuskonemachine
- viimeistelijäperson who refines
German Polierer, Schleifer
- Poliererperson who makes something smooth and shiny
- Schleiferperson who makes something smooth and shiny
- Poliermaschinemachine
Hungarian csiszoló, fényező
- csiszolótool
- fényezőtool
- fényesítőtool
- polírozótool
- csiszológépmachine
- csiszolómachine
Portuguese polidora
- polidoramachine
Spanish pulidora
- pulidoramachine
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polisher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polisher
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