CALLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caller mean? 

• CALLER (noun)
  The noun CALLER has 7 senses:

1. a social or business visitor

2. an investor who buys a call option

3. the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands

4. a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance

5. someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice

6. the person who convenes a meeting

7. the person initiating a telephone call

  Familiarity information: CALLER used as a noun is common.

• CALLER (adjective)
  The adjective CALLER has 2 senses:

1. providing coolness

2. fresh

  Familiarity information: CALLER used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A social or business visitor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caller; company

Context example:

the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company

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

visitant; visitor (someone who visits)

Derivation:

call (pay a brief visit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An investor who buys a call option

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

better; bettor; punter; wagerer (someone who bets)

Derivation:

call (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caller; caller-out

Context example:

you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing

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

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

Derivation:

call (give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner

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

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

Derivation:

call (utter in a loud voice or announce)

call (order, request, or command to come)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The person who convenes a meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

who is the caller of this meeting?

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

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

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

convener (the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings)

Derivation:

call (call a meeting; invite or command to meet)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The person initiating a telephone call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caller; caller-up; phoner; telephoner

Context example:

there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone

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

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Derivation:

call (get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone)

• CALLER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing coolness

Context example:

'caller' is a Scottish term as in 'a caller breeze'

Similar:

cool (neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fresh

Context example:

caller fish

Similar:

fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)

Domain region:

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

 Context examples 

And has had no letters or callers?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The neighbourhood was not large, but the Musgroves were visited by everybody, and had more dinner-parties, and more callers, more visitors by invitation and by chance, than any other family.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She wished me to look after the house, to see callers, and answer notes of condolence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Meg had an unusual number of callers to keep her at home, and Jo was in such a divided state of mind that her breakages, accidents, and mistakes were uncommonly numerous, serious, and trying.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)