Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maintainer

/meɪnˈteɪnə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English

Syllables: main-tain-er
IPA: /meɪnˈteɪnə/

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.

noun

A person who does maintenance work.

noun

A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Example Sentences

"He become the maintainer of the software project."
"Blessed are the maynteyners of peace: for they shalbe called the chyldren of God."
"“In somm trouble. Got off trail to go to br. Now lost. Can u call AMC to c if a trail maintainer can help me. Somewhere north of woods road. Xox,” she wrote."
"“To stay open, the senior enlisted leader of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Forward said he needed people to cover security,” Duncan wrote. “Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) Pilots, maintainers and support personnel donned their vests, helmets and M-4 rifles and manned defensive fighting positions.”"
"RAIB looked at why the washers were missing. This took it into the relationship between the wagon's owner and maintainers."
"Muehlendorf told CNN that O’Hara was a crew chief by trade, explaining that his “military occupational specialty was a 15T and he was originally trained to be a maintainer of Black Hawk helicopters.”"

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.

Word Breakdown

Root: *ten-

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /meɪnˈteɪnə/

Inflected Forms

maintainers (plural)

Derived Forms

maintainership

Frequently Paired Words

maintenance

Synonyms

upholder sustainer

Rhymes With

trainer container manor entertainer brainer retainer planar strainer explainer planer plainer stainer

Questions

How do you pronounce maintainer?: The recorded pronunciation is /meɪnˈteɪnə/.
What does maintainer mean?: Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
Where does maintainer come from?: From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.

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