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ROUSER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rouser mean?
• ROUSER (noun)
The noun ROUSER has 1 sense:
1. someone who rouses others from sleep
Familiarity information: ROUSER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who rouses others from sleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("rouser" is a kind of...):
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
Derivation:
rouse (cause to become awake or conscious)
Context examples
I give you my word it was a deal worse than any of your scoldings, a regular rouser.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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