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Webster 1913 Edition


Understander

Unˊder-stand′er

(ŭnˊdẽr-stănd′ẽr)
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Noun.
One who understands, or knows by experience.
[R.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Understander

UNDERSTAND'ER

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Noun.
One who understands or knows by experience. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


understander

understander

English

Noun

understander (plural understanders)

  1. One who understands something.
    • 2009, January 25, “Virginia Heffernan”, in Confessions of a TED Addict:
      These are the people of the brain, after all, the understanders.
    • 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 166:
      "You knew Mr. Kampf intimately?"
      "Yes, I guess so." She smiled as one understander to another.