Bearer

Quick meaning: Bearer is a noun meaning One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

Meaning

One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

More Meanings

1. Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.
2. One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.
3. A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.
4. A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.
5. (India, dated) A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.
6. (India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.
7. A tree or plant yielding fruit.

Example Sentences

I promise to pay the bearer on demand.

The deep shadows of the porch swallowed up priest, corpse and bearers […]

Forgive the Bearer of unhappy news: Your alter’d Father openly pursues Your ruine;

And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,

Word Forms

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Synonyms for bearer

Depending on context, synonyms include carrier, pallbearer, dressing-boy, toter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include toter, carrier, pallbearer, bearing, sitter, deliverer.

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