breaker
/ˈbɹeɪkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.60 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that breaks (something else).
noun
The building in which such a machine is placed.
Example Sentences
- "a breaker of men's souls"
- "at the coal breaker"
- "A: Is John at the tipple? B: No, he's at the breaker today."
- "A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber"
- "My beauty endures even as I endure; still, if thou wilt, oh rash man, have thy will; but blame not me if passion mount thy reason, as the Egyptian breakers used to mount a colt, and guide it whither thou wilt not."
- "Now and then in the lagoon you hear the leaping of a fish[…]. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef."
Etymology
From Middle English breker, brekere, equivalent to break + -er. Cognate with Dutch breker, German Low German Breker, German Brecher.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/
- British English: /ˈbɹeɪkə/
Usage
- Colloquial
- American usage
- Dated