STUNNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stunner mean? 

• STUNNER (noun)
  The noun STUNNER has 2 senses:

1. a very attractive or seductive looking woman

2. an unexpected and amazing event

  Familiarity information: STUNNER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUNNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beauty; dish; knockout; looker; lulu; mantrap; peach; ravisher; smasher; stunner; sweetheart

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Derivation:

stun (overcome as with astonishment or disbelief)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An unexpected and amazing event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

the stunner was what happened on Saturday

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

surprise (a sudden unexpected event)

 Context examples 

Here was a new stunner—I had been calculating on four or five thousand.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence. Mr. T. can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence. It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysm does not take place. Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence. The slightest provocation, even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner, causes him to express a wish for a separation. Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy “lemon-stunners”—a local sweetmeat—he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)