QUAKER

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

1. a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

2. one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

  Familiarity information: QUAKER used as a noun is rare.

• QUAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Friend; Quaker

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

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

Instance hyponyms:

Penn; William Penn (Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718))

Holonyms ("Quaker" is a member of...):

Quakers; Religious Society of Friends; Society of Friends (a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

quaker; trembler

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

coward (a person who shows fear or timidity)

Derivation:

quake (shake with fast, tremulous movements)

 Context examples 

And a Quaker flying a kite is a much more ridiculous object than anybody else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilarious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch—all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement—we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was a Quaker, or something of that sort, if I am not mistaken.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)