SHAVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shaver mean? 

• SHAVER (noun)
  The noun SHAVER has 3 senses:

1. an adult male who shaves

2. a young person of either sex

3. a razor powered by an electric motor

  Familiarity information: SHAVER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adult male who shaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Derivation:

shave (remove body hair with a razor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster

Context example:

'tiddler' is a British term for youngster

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

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Meronyms (parts of "shaver"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

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

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)

sprog (a child)

silly (a word used for misbehaving children)

kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)

poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)

imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)

foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)

changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)

buster (a robust child)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A razor powered by an electric motor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

electric razor; electric shaver; shaver

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

razor (edge tool used in shaving)

Derivation:

shave (remove body hair with a razor)

 Context examples 

“And who's this shaver?” said one of the gentlemen, taking hold of me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Poor little shaver," he murmured.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“None of your close shavers the Prince ain't. You'd say so, if you saw his moustachios. Red by nature, black by art.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)