Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who commits to memory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A person who learns by rote.

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  • noun One who, or that which, memorizes.

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  • noun a person who learns by rote

Etymologies

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memorize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • It took him four years to start winning championships, and the bar is only getting higher for a memorizer of a certain age.

    For this champion, life is (mostly) a memory game 2010

  • July 23, 2006, 2: 20 pm free texasholdem internet software says: free texasholdem internet software fourteen? worrying unwholesome deliberately memorizer denies

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Length of Law Review Articles: 2004

  • You'll even learn some tricks from a champion memorizer.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005 2005

  • After all, we want the President to excel as information synthesizer, not a memorizer.

    More on Bush's "Bulge" 2004

  • We talked about his inability to grasp concepts and how that was causing him to be too much of a memorizer rather than a comprehender.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • We talked about his inability to grasp concepts and how that was causing him to be too much of a memorizer rather than a comprehender.

    A Mind at a Time M.D. Mel Levine 2002

  • But in the old abbey, he ceased to be a technician; over there he was a monk of Christ, a booklegger and memorizer in the community of Leibowitz.

    A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959

  • You got de most miraculous memorizer eveh Ah heared of.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • During the speed cards event, each memorizer pored over a shuffled deck of cards for up to five minutes and then was handed a fresh deck to rearrange like the original.

    Slate Magazine Joshua Foer 2011

  • -- Psalm 4: 8 I am a compulsive memorizer, and what I memorize is not without purpose: I often use it to bring me sleep at night.

    WN.com - Articles related to The link between poor sleep and diabetes 2010

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