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bauer

/ˈbaʊ.əɹ/

bauer noun: a German farmer or peasant.

Noun (1)

bauer (plural bauers)

  1. A German farmer or peasant.
    • The large farmers are gentlemen of education, but the bauers are so occupied by the labour of routine, that they are excluded from all theoretical knowledge, and can make no other improvements than those which they may see practised by the larger farmers.1820, Thomas Hodgskin, Travels in the North of Germany, Describing the Present State of the Social and Political Institutions, the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Education, Arts and Manners in...
    • The bauers were in the public houses in this village, singing and drinking in a manner that would have horrified Sir Andrew Agnew, and made us think that, for a serious and sentimental nation, the Germans had the least show of being a religious one imaginable.1841, The Smugglers of the Swedish Coast: or, The Rose of Thistle Island, pages 23–24

Noun (2)

bauer (plural bauers)

  1. Synonym of Ina Bauer
    Synonyms:
    Ina Bauer

Proper noun capitalized: Bauer

Bauer

  1. A surname from German.
    • University of Massachusetts epidemiologist Ann Bauer reviewed existing research in a paper published last month in the journal Environmental Health with Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in...2025 September 22, Lauren Gardner, “Co-author of study linking Tylenol to autism says pain reliever still an option”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2025

bauer meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

bauer in Marathi

बाऊअर

bauer in Urdu

باؤر, باؤیر

bauer in Bengali

বাউয়ার

bauer in Telugu

బాయర్
More languagesFewer languages
bauer in Kannada
ಬಾಯರ್
bauer in Punjabi
ਬਾਊਅਰ, ਬੌਅਰ
bauer in Nepali
बाउयर

Examples of bauer in a sentence

  • He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.1879, S[abine] Baring-Gould, Germany, Present and Past, volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], page 129:
  • British yokels, British jail-birds, German handicraftsmen, German bauers, French peasants, and French artisans, were all pretty much alike made creditable “cannon-fodder.”1883, Archibald Forbes, “Fire-Discipline”, in T[homas] H[ay] S[weet] Escott, editor, The Fortnightly Review, volume XXXIV, London: Chapman...

Synonyms of bauer

Forms of bauer

pluralbauers

Origin of bauer

From German Bauer. Doublet of Boer, boor, and bower.

* As a German and Jewish surname, from German Bauer (“farmer”). Compare Bower. * Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the obsolete Middle High German noun (ge)būr (“neighbour”), from Old High German bur (“dwelling”).

Words formed from bauer

Phrases with bauer

Words that rhyme with bauer

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Questions about bauer

What does bauer mean?
Bauer means a German farmer or peasant.
What is bauer in Marathi?
Bauer in Marathi is बाऊअर. See Bauer meaning in Marathi.
How do you use bauer in a sentence?
He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.
What part of speech is bauer?
Bauer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bauer?
Bauer is pronounced /ˈbaʊ.əɹ/ (UK).
What is the plural of bauer?
The plural of bauer is bauers.

Words near bauer in the dictionary

  1. Baudrillardesque
  2. Baudrillardian
  3. Baudrit
  4. baudrons
  5. bauds
  6. bauer
  7. bauerenol
  8. Bauerian
  9. Bauerle
  10. Bauerles
  11. bauers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bauer (page history and authors); Bauer (page history and authors); bauer (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bauer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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