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devourer

devourer noun: one who devours.

Noun

devourer (plural devourers)

  1. One who devours.
    • It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, page 354
    • [They] have entered into the hunt with all the zeal that characterized the bookhunters, the coin collectors, the autograph devourers and the rest of that class of maniacs.1864, Frank Leslie's Ten Cent Monthly, volumes 1-2, page 305

devourer meaning in Sanskrit

devourer in Sanskrit

devourer, i.e. death
अदिति aditi
a devourer
अत्रि átri

Forms of devourer

pluraldevourers

Origin of devourer

Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.

Questions about devourer

What does devourer mean?
Devourer means one who devours.
What is devourer in Sanskrit?
Devourer in Sanskrit is अदिति (aditi), अत्रि (átri). See Devourer meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is devourer?
Devourer is a noun.
What is the plural of devourer?
The plural of devourer is devourers.

Words near devourer in the dictionary

  1. devotée
  2. devotées
  3. devour
  4. devourable
  5. devoured
  6. devourer
  7. devourers
  8. devouress
  9. devouresses
  10. devoureth
  11. devouring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devourer (page history and authors); अत्रि (Sanskrit) (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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