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thresholder en · NOUN

Etymology

From threshold + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person who occupies the threshold between places or statuses.
    • The term adopted by Apter (2001) for those aged 18–24 years is 'thresholders'. This is a highly descriptive and relevant way in which to interpret this life-stage. 2007, Anne Grinyer, Young People Living With Cancer: Implications for Policy and Practice:
    • The site of their transformation is the forest in which they dwell as thresholders in transition from one state of existence to another. 1995, Thomas Parkhill, The forest setting in Hindu epics: princes, sages, demons, page 187:

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