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AVOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does avower mean?
• AVOWER (noun)
The noun AVOWER has 2 senses:
1. someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly
2. someone who claims to speak the truth
Familiarity information: AVOWER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("avower" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Derivation:
avow (admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about)
Sense 2
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 ("avower" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avower"):
postulator (someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument)
Derivation:
avow (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true)
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