GOER (goer)

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Irregular inflected form: goer   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does goer mean? 

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

1. someone who leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

departer; goer; leaver

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

migrant; migrator (traveler who moves from one region or country to another)

Derivation:

go (move away from a place into another direction)

 Context examples 

Holmes and I put on our dress-clothes, so that we might appear to be two theatre-goers homeward bound.

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

It is unknown how much was consumed in our kitchen by odd comers and goers.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Never again did Champion Harrison throw his leg over the ropes of a twenty-four-foot ring; but the story of the great battle between the smith and the West Countryman is still familiar to old ring-goers, and nothing pleased him better than to re-fight it all, round by round, as he sat in the sunshine under his rose-girt porch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And by the by, it used to be uncommonly strange to me to consider, I remember, as I sat in Court too, how those dim old judges and doctors wouldn't have cared for Dora, if they had known her; how they wouldn't have gone out of their senses with rapture, if marriage with Dora had been proposed to them; how Dora might have sung, and played upon that glorified guitar, until she led me to the verge of madness, yet not have tempted one of those slow-goers an inch out of his road!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His knowledge and her ignorance of the subject, his rapidity of expression, and her diffidence of herself put that out of her power; she could strike out nothing new in commendation, but she readily echoed whatever he chose to assert, and it was finally settled between them without any difficulty that his equipage was altogether the most complete of its kind in England, his carriage the neatest, his horse the best goer, and himself the best coachman.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)