WEAVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaver mean? 

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

1. a craftsman who weaves cloth

2. finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests

  Familiarity information: WEAVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman who weaves cloth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Derivation:

weave (create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

weaver; weaver finch; weaverbird

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

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

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

baya; Ploceus philippinus (common Indian weaverbird)

whidah; whydah; widow bird (mostly black African weaverbird)

Java finch; Java sparrow; Padda oryzivora; ricebird (small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields)

amadavat; avadavat (red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds)

grass finch; grassfinch (usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds)

Holonyms ("weaver" is a member of...):

family Ploceidae; Ploceidae (weaverbirds)

 Context examples 

But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver’s shuttle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!

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

I heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking-weavers at work; and turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of that animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by the view of her head, and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding and stroking her.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)