STOKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stoker mean? 

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

1. Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)

2. a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

3. a mechanical device for stoking a furnace

  Familiarity information: STOKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Abraham Stoker; Bram Stoker; Stoker

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fireman; stoker

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

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Derivation:

stoke (stir up or tend; of a fire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mechanical device for stoking a furnace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)

Derivation:

stoke (stir up or tend; of a fire)