bowler
UK/ˈbəʊ.lə//ˈboʊ.lɚ/
bowler noun: one who engages in the sport of bowling.
Noun (1)
bowler (plural bowlers)
Noun (2)
bowler (plural bowlers)
- A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers'...1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster
- Synonyms:
- derby
Proper noun capitalized: Bowler
Bowler (countable and uncountable, plural Bowlers)
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
- An unincorporated community in Appomattox County, Virginia.
- A village in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
bowler meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bowler in Hindi
- cricket: player currently bowling
- गेंदबाज़ gendbāz
bowler in Tamil
- பந்து வீச்சாளர், பந்துவீச்சாளர்
bowler in Marathi
- cricket: player currently bowling
- गोलंदाज golandāj
- cricket: player selected mainly for his bowling ability
- गोलंदाज golandāj
bowler in Urdu
- cricket: player currently bowling
- گیند باز gend-bāz
More languagesFewer languages
- bowler in Bengali
- বোলার
- bowler in Telugu
- బౌలర్
- bowler in Malayalam
- ബൗളർ
- bowler in Kannada
- ಎಸೆಗಾರ, ಎಸೆತಗಾರ, ಚೆಂಡೆಸೆತಗಾರ
- bowler in Punjabi
- ਗੇਂਦਬਾਜ਼
- bowler in Gujarati
- ગોલંદાજ golandāj
- bowler in Odia
- ବୋଲର୍, ବୋଲର
- bowler in Nepali
- बोलर
Examples of bowler in a sentence
- The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
- He tried to wear down the bowlers before lunch so he could attack the bowlers after lunch.
- The bowler was bowling a bouncer so he uppercut the ball for six.
Synonyms of bowler
Forms of bowler
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bowlers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bowlers |
| alternative form | Bouler |
Origin of bowler
From bowl + -er.
From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production.
English occupational surname for a maker or seller of bowls, dishes and cups, from Middle English bollere.
Words formed from bowler
Phrases with bowler
Words that rhyme with bowler
34 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- circumpolar
- dipolar
- high roller
- homopolar
- lunisolar
- molar
- multipolar
- poler
- subsolar
- ambipolar
- antisolar
- arteriolar
- bolar
- bronchioalveolar
- bronchiolar
- comptroller
- condoler
- consoler
- droller
- enroller
- equimolar
- extoller
- grolar
- nonsolar
- osmolar
- parietoalveolar
- patroller
- petiolar
- premolar
- pseudobipolar
- reroller
- subpolar
- transpolar
- vacuolar
Questions about bowler
- What does bowler mean?
- Bowler means one who engages in the sport of bowling.
- What is bowler in Hindi?
- Bowler in Hindi is गेंदबाज़ (gendbāz). See Bowler meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bowler?
- Bowler can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bowler?
- Bowler is pronounced /ˈbəʊ.lə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bowler?
- The plural of bowler is bowlers.
Words near bowler in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowler (page history and authors); Bowler (page history and authors); bowler (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bowler (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bowler (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bowler (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bowler (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bowler (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bowler (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bowler (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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