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bringers

bringers is the plural of bringer.

Meaning of bringer

Noun

bringer (plural bringers)

  1. A person or a thing which brings something.
    • Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news / Hath but a losing office.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
  2. (historical, specifically) Someone who supplies or identifies potential recruits for the military in exchange for payment.
    • Hancox's recruitment would have gone something like this. In Conventry, where he may have been selling food or livestock at the town's market, he would have been intrigued by the recruiting party, especially the 'bringer', usually a sergeant, no doubt a tall man in scarlet with gold stripes on his...2021, M[eirion] J[ames] Trow, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett's 300 in the Crimea, Barnsley, South Yorkshire; Philadelphia, P.A.: Pen & Sword Military, unnumbered page

Questions about bringers

What is bringers the plural of?
Bringers is the plural of bringer.

Words near bringers in the dictionary

  1. Bringelly
  2. Bringenbrong
  3. bringer
  4. bringer-out
  5. bringer-up
  6. bringers
  7. bringers-out
  8. bringers-up
  9. bringest
  10. bringeth
  11. bringhouse

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