CRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crier mean? 

• CRIER (noun)
  The noun CRIER has 3 senses:

1. a person who weeps

2. (formerly) an official who made public announcements

3. a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

  Familiarity information: CRIER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who weeps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crier; weeper

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

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

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

bawler (a loud weeper)

blubberer (someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs)

Derivation:

cry (shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(formerly) an official who made public announcements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crier; town crier

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

announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)

Derivation:

cry (proclaim or announce in public)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman (someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals))

bawler; bellower; roarer; screamer; screecher; shouter; yeller (someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice)

Derivation:

cry (proclaim or announce in public)

 Context examples 

My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the grultrud, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a splacnuck (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.

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