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blazer

Syllables: blaz·erUK/ˈbleɪzə//ˈbleɪzəɹ/

blazer noun: a very bright or hot day.

Noun (1)

blazer (plural blazers)

  1. (informal) A very bright or hot day.
    • The day comes—a blazer, cloudless blue, not a breath stirring the pine-branches; […]1875, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], chapter III, in Hostages to Fortune […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 88
  2. (Canada, US) A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.
    • [I]t was evident to him that Mrs. Nichols in branching out did not intend to banish the Welsh rarebit, the oysters in cream, and other delicacies which Tom prided himself on being able to prepare on a blazer so skilfully that the mouths of his friends never ceased to water until the alcohol-lamp...1895, Robert Grant, “By Hook or Crook. Chapter I.”, in The Bachelor’s Christmas and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 260
  3. (Northern England) A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
    • From the neighbouring colleries the miners had come in crowds—men, women, and children. The women and children were many of them armed with "blazers" and tin-cans, which they used as cymbals, to the accompaniment of groans, yells, and howls directed against the motley gang of evictors.a. 1923 (date written), Thomas Burt, Aaron Watson, “The Last Strike on the Old Pattern”, in Thomas Burt […]: An Autobiography […], London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin […], published 1924, →OCLC, page 177
  4. (obsolete) A comet.
  5. (figuratively) A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
    • Rowing is, in truth, second to none among our national athletic diversions, and Henley Regatta is the chief rowing tournament of the year. […] [T]he visitors' cup of enjoyment can hardly be fuller. The drive to the river, the gentle pull down stream, or the tow up to the famous reach; the pic-nic...1880 June 19, “[Untitled]”, in The Times, number 29,912, London: Francis Goodlake, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 6
    • In your article of to-day, under the above heading, you speak of "a striped red and black blazer," "the blazer," also of "the pale toned" ones. This is worth noting as a case of the specific becoming the generic. A blazer is the red flannel boating jacket, worn by the Lady Margaret, St. John's...1889 August 20 (date written), Walter Wren, “Dress by the sea”, in John Richard Robinson, editor, The Daily News, number 13,534, London: Thomas Britton, published 22 August 1889, →OCLC, page 6...
    1. (figuratively) Any suit-style jacket for women.
    2. (UK, figuratively, slang) An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.
  6. (figuratively) A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.
    • a blazer of paths
    • a blazer of pathways
  7. (figuratively, slang) Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.
    • The disfigurement was so plainly obvious that it seemed evident the rustlers planned to run a blazer on us by undertaking to cut them [cattle] on the spring round-up under cover of a gun bluff.1908, Edgar Beecher Bronson, “Wintering among Rustlers”, in Reminiscences of a Ranchman, New York, N.Y.: The McClure Company, →OCLC, pages 115–116
    • "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."1914 October 1, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate. Chapter II.”, in Charles Agnew MacLean, editor, The Popular Magazine, volume XXXIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith, →OCLC...
  8. (US, figuratively) Someone or something that draws attention.
    • T' other gal is likely enough, but the mother's a blazer! Whoever marries Emmy, had better look out for his ears. The mill-clack is nothing to the old woman's tongue.1846, C[aroline] M[athilda Stansbury] Kirkland, “Ambuscades”, in Western Clearings (Wiley and Putnam’s Library of American Books), New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 127
  9. (US, figuratively, slang) One who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.

Noun (2)

blazer (plural blazers)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) One who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.
    • VVithin the Barbican a Porter ſate, / Day and night duely keeping vvatch and vvard, / Nor vvight, nor vvord mote paſſe out of the gate, / But in good order, and vvith devv regard; / Vtterers of ſecrets he from thence debard, / Bablers of folly, and blazers of cryme.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 314
    • To have their blazers abroad to ſee out their virtues, and to prepare their friends in every Province.a. 1619 (date written), Walter Raleigh, “A Method How to Make Use of the Book before, in the Reading of the Storie. Observations. Ways of Such as Aspire to the Kingdome, & Marks to Discern Them.”, in...

Noun (3)

blazer (plural blazers)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).
    • But now it is tyme to come to the auncient Poets, which were alſo Philoſophers, and who by their feynings opened the gap to the pluralitie of Gods. Amang theſe the firſt that wee méete with is Orpheus, whom Iuſtine calleth the firſt Author of them, the firſt giuer of names vnto them, and the firſt...1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That the Wisdome of the World hath Acknowledged One Onely God”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the...
    Synonyms:
    blazoner

Proper noun capitalized: Blazer

Blazer (plural Blazers)

  1. A surname.

blazer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

blazer in Hindi

lightweight semi-formal jacket
ब्लेज़र blezar

blazer in Tamil

விளையாட்டாளர் அணியும் பகட்டு வண்ணச்சட்டை, பகட்டொளி, அண்டப்புளுகு

blazer in Marathi

lightweight semi-formal jacket
ब्लेझर blejhar

blazer in Urdu

بلیزر, بلیجر, ब्लेزر
More languagesFewer languages
blazer in Bengali
ব্লেজার blejar
blazer in Telugu
బ్లేజర్, బ్లాజర్
blazer in Malayalam
ബ്ലേസർ, ബ്ലാസർ
blazer in Kannada
ಬ್ಲೇಜರ್, ಬ್ಲೇಸರ್
blazer in Punjabi
ਬਲੇਜ਼ਰ, ਬਲੈਜ਼ਰ
blazer in Gujarati
બ્લેઝર, બ્લૅઝર
blazer in Odia
ବ୍ଲେଜର, ବ୍ଲେଜର୍, ବ୍ଲାଜର୍
blazer in Nepali
ब्लेजर, ब्लाजर, ब्ल्याजर
blazer in Arabic
بلزر
blazer in Malay
blazer
blazer in Indonesian
blazer
blazer in Persian
بلیزر

Examples of blazer in a sentence

  • In your article of to-day, under the above heading, you speak of "a striped red and black blazer," "the blazer," also of "the pale toned" ones.1889 August 20 (date written), Walter Wren, “Dress by the sea”, in John Richard Robinson, editor, The Daily News, number 13,534, London...
  • He not only was a very able man, a blazer of pathways, but he was a great orator.1938, National Association of State Universities, Transactions and Proceedings of the National Association of State Universities in the...
  • [F]reedom, a blazer of paths to essentials.1973, Jean Marie Ackermann, Outside in India: How Western Characters are Perceived in Writings of Kamala Markandaya and R[uth] Prawer...
  • But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, [John Horton] Slaughter had run him.1945, Eugene Cunningham, “Sheriff of Cochise: John Slaughter”, in Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters […], Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton...

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Synonyms of blazer

Forms of blazer

Noun
pluralblazers
Proper noun
pluralBlazers

Plural of blazer: blazers

Origin of blazer

From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Blaze is derived from blaze (“fire”, noun), from Middle English blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light”), from Old English blæse, blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (whence Old English blæsere, blasere (“one who burns, burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”), from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“a torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blaze, burn; to be bright, shine; bright flame, fire; shiny; white”).

From Middle English blasour (“one who over-praises”), from blasen (“to blow; to sound a blast”) + -our (suffix forming agent nouns). Blasen is possibly derived from Old English *blǣsan (“to blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan (“to blow”), from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”). By surface analysis, blaze (“to blow (a trumpet); to announce publicly, publish”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

From Middle English blaseyr (“one who blazons coats of arms”), probably from blasen (“to inscribe with armorial bearings, emblazon; to blazon a coat of arms”) + -er, -ir (suffix forming agent nouns). Blasen is probably derived from blason, blasoun (“shield usually with a coat of arms; coat of arms”), from Old French blason (“shield; coat of arms”) (modern French blason); further etymology uncertain, probably from Frankish *blãsjan (“to light up, brighten, illuminate”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (see further at etymology 1). By surface analysis, blaze (“(heraldry) to blazon”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

Words formed from blazer

Words that rhyme with blazer

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Questions about blazer

What does blazer mean?
Blazer means a very bright or hot day.
What is blazer in Hindi?
Blazer in Hindi is ब्लेज़र (blezar). See Blazer meaning in Hindi.
How do you use blazer in a sentence?
In your article of to-day, under the above heading, you speak of "a striped red and black blazer," "the blazer," also of "the pale toned" ones.
What part of speech is blazer?
Blazer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce blazer?
Blazer is pronounced /ˈbleɪzə/ (UK).
What is the plural of blazer?
The plural of blazer is blazers.

Words near blazer in the dictionary

  1. blazeless
  2. blazen
  3. blazened
  4. blazening
  5. blazens
  6. blazer
  7. blazered
  8. blazerless
  9. blazers
  10. blazes
  11. blazes a trail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blazer (page history and authors); Blazer (page history and authors); blazer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blazer (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blazer (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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