FRUITERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruiterer mean? 

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

1. a person who sells fruit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who sells fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

 Context examples 

Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)