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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that closes: The closer of the shop has to lock up.
  2. n. Baseball A relief pitcher called upon to protect a lead late in a game.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who or that which closes or concludes. Specifically— That which puts an end to a controversy, or disposes of an antagonist; a clencher.
  2. n. An inclosure.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Someone or something that closes.
  2. n. Someone or something that concludes.
  3. n. The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
  4. n. baseball A relief pitcher that specializes in getting the last three outs of the game. See Wikipedia:closer (baseball)
  5. adj. comparative form of close: more close

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under boot.
  2. n. A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.
  3. n. (Masonry) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance
  2. n. a person who closes something
  3. n. (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game

Etymologies

  1. From close (verb) + -er (Wiktionary)

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  1. finisher

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. person
  1. mortal
  1. individual
  1. someone
  1. soul
  1. somebody

rhymes (8)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. bowser
  1. composer
  1. disposer
  1. doser
  1. grocer
  1. grosser
  1. poser
  1. roser

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. clocher
  2. half-header
  3. inswept
  4. imperialism
  5. convergence
  6. to haul off
  7. home
  8. closer
  9. interresist
  10. outpoint
  11. parembole
  12. gilt-edged
  13. forward pass
  14. upstream
  15. horseshoe
  16. Hebrides
  1. anakolouthia. anakoluthia
  2. closen
  3. compress
  4. Kata
  5. ringtoss
  6. Senegambia
  7. scrunch
  8. COBOL
  9. tactical
  10. semicolon
  11. center of curvature of a curve
  12. toe-in
  13. heir presumptive
  14. downstream
  15. camber
  16. close
  1. low
  2. haul
  3. gather
  4. stagger
  5. maneuver
  6. raise
  7. reddish orange
  8. soft pedal
  9. light
  10. cheat
  11. draw
  12. prima facie
  13. near
  14. rise
  15. gain
  16. grow
  1. shallow
  2. closed
  3. luff
  4. Galician
  5. inside
  6. near vision
  7. approach
  8. approaching
  9. closing
  10. closure
  11. coming
  12. convergency
  13. converging
  14. inner
  15. noose
  16. tighter
  1. achean
  2. articulate
  3. blanket
  4. condensation
  5. condense
  6. congregation
  7. consonant
  8. contract
  9. datiscaceæ
  10. fulling-mill
  11. logarithm
  12. neighborhood
  13. o
  14. shirring-string
  15. shot-plug
  16. consolidation
  1. meteorite
  2. t

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  1. bi-sonic
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