SHARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sharer mean? 

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

1. someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHARER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

partaker; sharer

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

participant; player (someone who takes part in an activity)

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

pooler (someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all)

Derivation:

share (give out as one's portion or share)

share (have, give, or receive a share of)

 Context examples 

For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter, for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

How delightful to see it, and to be made the sharers in their honest joy, as we have been!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was dear John and dear Catherine at every word; dear Anne and dear Maria must immediately be made sharers in their felicity; and two dears at once before the name of Isabella were not more than that beloved child had now well earned.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She might have been unconsciously sucking in the sad poison, while a sharer of his conversation with her friend; and from the best, the purest of motives, might now be denying herself this visit to Ireland, and resolving to divide herself effectually from him and his connexions by soon beginning her career of laborious duty.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In truth I must acknowledge that, with all the disadvantages of this humble parsonage, I should not think anyone abiding in it an object of compassion, while they are sharers of our intimacy at Rosings.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)