Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which represents.
  • noun A representative; one who acts by deputation.

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

  • noun One who shows, exhibits, or describes.
  • noun obsolete A representative.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun That which represents

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

to represent + -er.

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Examples

  • However, the biggest surprise came when Bronson brought out underground legend/Queens representer Cormega from behind the curtain.

    Jerell Tongson: Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Action Bronson and Mr. M-fin' eXquire Shut Down Southpaw Jerell Tongson 2012

  • Expect big things from this 909 representer in the near future.

    Dart Adams presents 25 Producers You Need To Hear Right Now (2009 Edition) Part Four Dart Adams 2009

  • Au sieur de Champlain la somme de trois escuz pour aller trouver Monsieur le marechal et luy representer quelques chose important le service du Roy, Le Blant and Baudry, eds., Nouveaux documents, 1:19.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • A second criticism would be that the self as representer may not be

    Michel Foucault Gutting, Gary 2008

  • (Otherwise, there is no basis for saying that the self as representer is “less real”.)

    Michel Foucault Gutting, Gary 2008

  • Au sieur de Champlain la somme de trois escuz pour aller trouver Monsieur le marechal et luy representer quelques chose important le service du Roy, Le Blant and Baudry, eds., Nouveaux documents, 1:19.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • For it is the unity of the representer, not the unity of the represented, that maketh the person one.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The word person is Latin, instead whereof the Greeks have prosopon, which signifies the face, as persona in Latin signifies the disguise, or outward appearance of a man, counterfeited on the stage; and sometimes more particularly that part of it which disguiseth the face, as a mask or vizard: and from the stage hath been translated to any representer of speech and action, as well in tribunals as theatres.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And therefore he that maketh a covenant with the actor, or representer, not knowing the authority he hath, doth it at his own peril.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And it is the representer that beareth the person, and but one person: and unity cannot otherwise be understood in multitude.

    Leviathan 2007

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