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doater

doater is the obsolete spelling of doter.

Meaning of doter

Noun

doter (plural doters)

  1. Synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”).
    • “Hold thy tongue! old doter; how should my daughter resemble thy son?”1843, Astolphe marquis de Custine, The Empire of the Czar, page 103
    Synonyms:
    dotard, dodipole
  2. Synonym of dotard (“one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness”).
    Synonyms:
    dotard

Forms of doater

pluraldoaters

Questions about doater

What is doater the obsolete spelling of?
Doater is the obsolete spelling of doter.

Words near doater in the dictionary

  1. Doans
  2. Doar
  3. Doars
  4. doat
  5. doated
  6. doater
  7. doaters
  8. doating
  9. doating-piece
  10. doating-pieces
  11. doatingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doater (page history and authors); doter (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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