approacher
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that approaches.
noun
An asteroid on a near-Earth trajectory.
Example Sentences
- "The monkeys’ calls warn other animals of approachers."
- "1589, Paul Ive (translator), Instructions for the Warres by Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, London: Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, Chapter 5, p. 38, […] houses or other thing standing néere vnto a towne, or fort, are meanes to surprise and approach vnto it, and the approacher not be discouered, or impeached by the defenders."
- "Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome To knaves and all approachers:"
- "Stop, Headstrong Muse! And e’er we Higher go, Look down, with Caution, on the Depth below; Prospects, so vast, the Rash Approacher fright, And, dazling, wound the uncollected Sight:"
- "her vigilant ear picked up approachers in the corridor"
- "Extensive upgrades to the Arecibo antenna will be completed this spring, providing dozens of Toutatis-quality detections per year, spacecraft-quality images of the closest approachers, and hundred-pixel images of dozens of main-belt asteroids ( 9 )."
Etymology
From approach + -er.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
earth approacher