DECKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Decker mean? 

• DECKER (noun)
  The noun DECKER has 2 senses:

1. English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632)

2. (often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels

  Familiarity information: DECKER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Decker; Dekker; Thomas Decker; Thomas Dekker

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

pamphleteer (a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(often used in combinations) something constructed with multiple levels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

they rode in a double-decker bus

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

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

 Context examples 

When you are promoted to a two-decker, my lord, it will possibly become clearer to you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long, for Fanny could so little bear to excite impatience, or be waited for, that before the gentlemen, as they stood at the door, could do more than begin upon the last naval regulations, or settle the number of three-deckers now in commission, their companions were ready to proceed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)