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FALLER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who falls

Example:

a faller among thieves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("faller" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("faller" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faller"):

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

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