Meanings
nounwearer (plural wearers)
plural wearers
- One who wears.
On Saint Patrick's day I put on my green shirt and join the wearers of the green.
1 more example
Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 85
Origin
- Middle Englishwerer
- Englishwearer
From Middle English werer, werere, equivalent to wear + -er.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch drager, draagster
- dragerone who wears
- draagsterone who wears
German Träger, Trägerin
- Trägerone who wears
- Trägerinone who wears
Italian indossatore
- indossatoreone who wears
Malay pemakai
- pemakaione who wears
Scottish Gaelic fear-caitheamh
- fear-caitheamhone who wears
Turkish ... giyen
- ... giyenone who wears
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with wearer
All rhymes →Sounds the same
whirrer (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
wearer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wearer
MLA
“wearer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wearer. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wearer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wearer.
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