Dictionary

drowner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdɹaʊnə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From drown + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who dies by drowning.
   • With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers. 2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits:
2. One who drowns another.
   • At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which. 1950, Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal:

Forms

Deriveds

goose-drowner

Translations (6)

bg уда́вница (someone who dies by drowning) · fr noyé (someone who dies by drowning) · fr noyeuse (someone who drowns another) · fr noyeur (someone who drowns another) · fr noyée (someone who dies by drowning) · bg уда́вник (someone who dies by drowning)