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eater en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈiː.ɾɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈiː.tɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈiː.tə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English eter, etere, etter, from Old English etere; equivalent to eat + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (food suitable for eating).

Meanings

  1. A person or animal who eats.
    • I'm a slow but fastidious eater 1987, Baird Jones, Sexual humor, page 309:
    • Ice cream tastes good to the eater, and has the added advantage of providing a little chill of excitement […] 1997, James White, The Best Sex of Your Life, page 166:
    • Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed. 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:
    • "He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure," thought the farmer. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 96:
    • "Eaters of human flesh, two things have ye done. First, ye have attacked these strangers, being white men, and would have slain their servant, and for that alone death is your reward." 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
    • a very fussy eater
    • 2001, Cool Sexy Guy, Story: Cheerleading Camp Group: alt.sex The girls were having lots of fun rolling around on the bed, though Kacie was a much better fingerer and occasional eater.
  2. A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.
    • For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers. 2004, Laura Mason, Food Culture in Great Britain, page 94:
    • The bass is a fine eater. 1911, Robert Ernest Vernède, The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions, page 98:
  3. A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
    • But there are many queen bee configurations in which the debris is neutralized, including placement of a block or eater near the bee's turnaround point, or placing two queen bees in a line or at right angles in various positions and phases. 1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
    • Probably even if it didn't fail catastrophically, any design like this would get stuck in an infinite loop pretty quick, upon hitting its first "cleaner-proof" ash -- an eater pattern that happens to absorb the test reaction without itself being altered. 2009 January 13, Dave Greene, “Ash”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
    • The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so. 1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Forms

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eaters Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

beaver-eater · plant-eater · crab-eater seal · can-eater · quiche-eater · chalk eater · fire-eater · useless eater · anteater · maneater · binge eater · smoke eater · clay eater · eatress · fruit-eater · cake-eater · bee-eater · competitive eater · Siamese algae-eater · foreskin-eater · fruiteater · beaver eater · plantain-eater · turd-eater · little green bee-eater · croweater · sin eater · stareater · weedeater · pie-eater · bolete eater · meateater · green bee-eater · fog-eater · Haweater · blue-cheeked bee-eater · eartheater · beefeater · shit-eater · birdeater · rice eater · leafeater · berryeater · mosquito-eater · grasseater · fig-eater · golden sand-eater · gnateater · rice-eater · man-eater · spawn eater · caterpillar eater · crow-eater · frog-eater · seedeater · European bee-eater · chickeneater · ass-eater · foreskin eater · frogeater · grass-eater · turdeater · toad eater · cheese-eater · crabeater · toad-eater · lotus eater · weed eater · Beefeater · meat-eater · beaneater · meat eater · fireeater · egg-eater · plant eater · lotus-eater · cheese eater · shiteater · toadeater · taxeater · quarter-eater · sin-eater · bean-eater · time eater · potato eater · fire eater · flying purple people-eater · crayon eater · crab-eater · dogeater · centipede-eater · picky eater · flying purple people eater · crow eater · ant-eater · honeyeater · serpent-eater · big eater · opium-eater

Relateds

cooker · trencherman

Translations (42)

it mangiatore (one who eats) · yo ọ̀jẹun (one who eats) · pl zjadacz (one who eats) · ny wakudya (one who eats) · gl comedor (one who eats) · ny mdya (one who eats) · fr mangeur (one who eats) · pt comedor (one who eats) · fi syöjä (one who eats) · sw mla (one who eats) · as ভোক্তা (one who eats) · sq hamës (one who eats) · nrf mangeux (one who eats) · ny wanyole (one who eats) · mk јадач (one who eats) · ru поедательница (one who eats) · hi भक्षी (one who eats) · sq ngrënës (one who eats) · cmn 進食者 /进食者 (one who eats) · ang ǣta (one who eats) · yo ajẹun (one who eats) · ca menjador (one who eats) · hi आहारी (one who eats) · de Esser (one who eats) · tr yiyici (one who eats) · sl jédec (one who eats) · es comedor (one who eats) · sv ätare (one who eats) · hi भक्षक (one who eats) · ar آكِل (one who eats) · ro mâncător (one who eats) · uk їде́ць (one who eats) · ckb بخۆر (one who eats) · sl jédka (one who eats) · hi भोक्ता (one who eats) · cmn 食者 (one who eats) · got 𐌰𐍆𐌴𐍄𐌾𐌰 (one who eats) · ru поедатель (one who eats) · ru едо́к (one who eats) · hu evő (one who eats) · nl eter (one who eats) · la ēsor (one who eats)