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addressor

addressor is the alternative form of addresser.

Meaning of addresser

Noun

addresser (plural addressers)

  1. A person who gives an address or speech.
    • The girls were listening with the polite though precarious attention which Brown Borough girls always bring to bear on the first three hundred words of any address, especially if the addresser be a man.1916, Stella Benson, chapter I, in I Pose, pages 305–306
  2. A person who addresses someone (directs spoken or written communication toward someone).
    • When letters were in their infancy, and when knowledge and the arts were groping their way through seemingly impervious mists, some splendid name was necessary to give an author celebrity—hence the custom of DEDICATIONS; hence those floods of adulation, which poured from the press, and outraged the...1788, Hannah Cowley, The Fate of Sparta, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, dedicatory letter
  3. A person who addresses (applies an address to an object to be delivered to a particular location).
    • […] if they had not been lifted in the air by the enormous accident of a man of genius, the Dickenses, I fancy, would have appeared in poorer and poorer places, as inventory clerks, as caretakers, as addressers of envelopes, until they melted into the masses of the poor.1906, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 2, in Charles Dickens: A Critical Study, New York: Dodd Mead & Co., page 25
  4. A machine that addresses.

Forms of addressor

pluraladdressors

Questions about addressor

What is addressor the alternative form of?
Addressor is the alternative form of addresser.

Words near addressor in the dictionary

  1. addressless
  2. addresslessness
  3. addressment
  4. addressograph
  5. addressographs
  6. addressor
  7. addressors
  8. addrest
  9. adds
  10. adds flame to the fire
  11. adds fuel to fire

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Adapted from Wiktionary: addressor (page history and authors); addresser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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