DOER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doer mean? 

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

1. a person who acts and gets things done

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who acts and gets things done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

actor; doer; worker

Context example:

he's a miracle worker

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

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

demon (someone extremely diligent or skillful)

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy (an alert and energetic person)

animator; energiser; energizer; vitaliser; vitalizer (someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people)

ball of fire; go-getter; whiz-kid; whizz-kid (someone whose career progresses rapidly)

man of action; man of deeds (someone inclined to act first and think later)

ball of fire; fireball; human dynamo; powerhouse (a highly energetic and indefatigable person)

Derivation:

do (carry out or perform an action)

do (get (something) done)

 Context examples 

She must be the doer of everything: Lady Bertram would of course be spared all thought and exertion, and it would all fall upon her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

At times he would come back in triumph, and a dozen corpses swinging from the summit of his keep would warn evil-doers that there was still a law in the land.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For years past I have continually been conscious of some power behind the malefactor, some deep organizing power which forever stands in the way of the law, and throws its shield over the wrong-doer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But his child-mind only saw so far; and it may be that, as ever is in God's Providence, the very thing that the evil-doer most reckoned on for his selfish good, turns out to be his chiefest harm.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It must be done directly; it must be done in London; the order must go through the hands of some intelligent person whose taste could be depended on; and Isabella, the usual doer of all commissions, must not be applied to, because it was December, and Mr. Woodhouse could not bear the idea of her stirring out of her house in the fogs of December.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Appreciation of nature found no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, Mary, my Fanny will feel a difference indeed: a daily, hourly difference, in the behaviour of every being who approaches her; and it will be the completion of my happiness to know that I am the doer of it, that I am the person to give the consequence so justly her due.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)