Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that calls, especially a party placing a telephone call.
- n. A person paying a short social visit.
- n. A person who calls out numbers or directions, as at a bingo game or a square dance.
- adj. Scots Fresh.
- adj. Scots Cool and refreshing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who calls, in any sense of the verb; especially, one who pays a short complimentary visit.
- Cool; refreshing: as, a caller breeze
- Fresh; in proper season: applied chiefly to fish: as, caller herrings.
Wiktionary
- n. The person who made a telephone call.
- n. A visitor.
- n. bingo The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- n. computing, programming The function that calls another (the callee).
- n. A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who calls.
- adj. Cool; refreshing; fresh.
- adj. Fresh; in good condition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the person initiating a telephone call
- adj. fresh.
- adj. providing coolness
- n. a social or business visitor
- n. someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- n. the person who convenes a meeting
- n. an investor who buys a call option
- n. the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- n. a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
Etymologies
- Agent noun of call. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English calour, alteration of calver. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The name caller is frustrated and wants you to return to being more "agreeable.”
The Huffington Post: Daylle Deanna Schwartz: I've Been Called Worse
“More startled than hurt, the name caller began to cry.”
“When he says his caller is a blockhead with tampons in her ears, he really means HE is a blockhead who refuses to listen to any point of view that disagrees with his own.”
“If the caller is a fundraiser, ask for whom they are collecting money.”
“The availability of Social Security numbers makes it easier to convince a customer service agent that the caller is the account holder.”
“The 'caller' is claiming to be a COMMAND MASTER CHIEF for a SEAL TEAM”
“I don't know what the last - what media the last caller is referring to, but in all the newspapers I read, the magazines and the TV shows I watch, these extremists are called extremists.”
“Both quarterbacks looks decent against a porous VMI defense that allowed the Cavaliers to amass 466 total yards, and Coach Mike London said their battle to be the No. 2 signal caller is ongoing.”
The Washington Post: Virginia 48, VMI 7: Three up, three down
“I mean, one of the ways that they found out, for example in Minneapolis, where the caller is from, that about two dozen young men from Minneapolis were traveling to go and join with al-Shabab was from the parents of these young men, who went to the authorities saying we're worried, and we'd like your help.”
“The 6-foot-2 signal-caller is a dual threat, athletic enough to draw interest from schools looking to move him out from under center, but a good enough passer to be a good fit in a more pro-style passing attack.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caller’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
times, union, post, dispatch, outlook, star, news, courier, herald, advertiser, daily, eagle and 178 more...
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people
authoress, arm candy, doppelganger, contender, portraitist, acolyte, hierophant, whistleblower, scrivener, querent, banshee, jester and 81 more...
Tweets
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garyth123 Caller, fresh, cool. There is no exact English synonym for this word. " Caller herrin," " Caller haddie," and "Caller ow" are familiar cries to Edinburgh people, and to all strangers who
visit that beautiful city.
Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue,
His breath's like caller air ;
His very foot has music in't
When he comes up the stair.
MICKLE : There's nae Luck
about the House.
Upon a simmer Sunday morn,
When Nature's face is fair,
I walked forth to view the corn
And snuff the caller air.
BURNS: The Holy Fair.
From Mackay's Dictionary of Lowland Scotch. Jan 18, 2009
garyth123 A’ ye wha canna stand sae sicker,
Whan twice ye’ve toom’d the big
ars’dbicker,
Mix caller oysters wi your liquor,
And I’m your debtor
If greedy priest or drouthy vicar
Will thole it better.
Auld Reekie’s 18th-century James Dean
sicker?
toom'd
big ars'dbicker? Jan 18, 2009
garyth123 In Scots this means fresh. Fergusson has a line I think about caller oysters (or whatever oysters is in Scots, I'll check). Jan 18, 2009