ASSERTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asserter mean? 

• ASSERTER (noun)
  The noun ASSERTER has 1 sense:

1. someone who claims to speak the truth

  Familiarity information: ASSERTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSERTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who claims to speak the truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

affirmer; asserter; asseverator; avower; declarer

Context example:

an avower of his own great intelligence

Hypernyms ("asserter" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "asserter"):

postulator (someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument)

Derivation:

assert (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true)

 Context examples 

He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)