WEARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wearer mean? 

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

1. a person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEARER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who wears or carries or displays something as a body covering or accessory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

the wearer of the crown

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

user (a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something)

Derivation:

wear (be dressed in)

 Context examples 

"Oh, no. They must obey the wearer of the Cap. Good-bye!"

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Often, the wearer will input a signal which is used as an event marker when they feel symptoms such as tachycardia, as the device continuously records cardiac activity.

(Cardiac Event Monitor, NCI Thesaurus)

It was clear to me, from the strength of the glasses, that the wearer must have been very blind and helpless when deprived of them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Very small, round vesicles containing fluid and cellular debris observed on the surface of the cornea under slit-lamp examination in some types of corneal dystrophy and in wearers of extended-wear lenses.

(Epithelial Microcyst, NCI Thesaurus)

Ozturk mentioned superior contact resistance — or skin contact — with flexible devices, as well as the ergonomic and comfort considerations to the device wearer.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

His very clothes seemed to partake of the hospitable nature of the wearer.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So the uniform remained at Portsmouth, and Edmund conjectured that before Fanny had any chance of seeing it, all its own freshness and all the freshness of its wearer's feelings must be worn away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Now there was a sword that cut off an enemy’s head whenever the wearer gave the words, Heads off!; a cloak that made the owner invisible, or gave him any form he pleased; and a pair of boots that carried the wearer wherever he wished.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the best of training.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg was asked at once, and the tight slippers tripped about so briskly that none would have guessed the pain their wearer suffered smilingly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)