RESCUER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescuer mean? 

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

1. a person who rescues you from harm or danger

2. someone who saves something from danger or violence

  Familiarity information: RESCUER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCUER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who rescues you from harm or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour

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

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

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

christ; messiah (any expected deliverer)

Derivation:

rescue (free from harm or evil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who saves something from danger or violence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

recoverer; rescuer; saver

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

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

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

salvager; salvor (someone who salvages)

succorer; succourer (someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty)

 Context examples 

You will not be my comforter, my rescuer?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So might our fame have gone down together for all time, and you be numbered with Sir Percival or Sir Galahad, or all the other rescuers of oppressed ladies.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It involved enlisting around a thousand screened volunteers — including snake-rescuers, naturalists and forestry workers — to upload photograph sightings of India’s four most medically important snakes, along with information such as location, time of day and weather.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

The Lady Tiphaine was lowered with a noose drawn fast under the arms, and the other five slid swiftly down, amid the cheers and joyous outcry of their rescuers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the sight a deep groan of rage and of despair went up from the baffled rescuers, and, spurring on their horses, they clattered down the long and winding path which led to the valley beneath.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He staggered to his feet and looked down upon his rescuer, who had raised himself upon his elbow, and was smiling faintly at the buzz of congratulation and of praise which broke from the squires around him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)