SPOTTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spotter mean? 

• SPOTTER (noun)
  The noun SPOTTER has 4 senses:

1. a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots

2. a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)

3. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

4. someone who is the first to observe something

  Familiarity information: SPOTTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOTTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Derivation:

spot (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lookout; lookout man; picket; scout; sentinel; sentry; spotter; watch

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

security guard; watcher; watchman (a guard who keeps watch)

Derivation:

spot (catch sight of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Someone who is the first to observe something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

discoverer; finder; spotter

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

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

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

co-discoverer (someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something)

Derivation:

spot (catch sight of)