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dempster

dempster is the alternative form of deemster.

Meaning of deemster

Noun

deemster (plural deemsters)

  1. (dialectal, Isle of Man) A judge; one who pronounces sentence or doom.
    • If you hire a house for a year, and before the end of a month, happen to disagree with your landlord, he goes to the Deemster, and tells him, that he suspects you intend to leave the island, without paying his rent; […]1767, The Gentleman's and London Magazine

Proper noun capitalized: Dempster

Dempster

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a judge.

Forms of dempster

pluraldempsters

Origin of dempster

From deemster.

Words formed from dempster

Questions about dempster

What does dempster mean?
Dempster means a surname originating as an occupation for a judge.
What is dempster the alternative form of?
Dempster is the alternative form of deemster.
What part of speech is dempster?
Dempster is a proper noun.

Words near dempster in the dictionary

  1. demoware
  2. demoxepam
  3. demoxytocin
  4. Dempsey
  5. Dempseys
  6. dempster
  7. Dempster-Shafer theory
  8. dempsters
  9. DEMs
  10. Demsa
  11. Demski

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dempster (page history and authors); Dempster (page history and authors); deemster (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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