doer

Syllables: do·er/ˈduː.ə/US/ˈdu.ɚ/

doer noun: someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

Noun

doer (plural doers)

Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
- a doer of good
- By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 205
Synonyms:

agent, dynamo, gunner, self-starter

Antonyms:

doee, patient, idler, bum, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing

doer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

doer in Hindi

someone who does: कर्ता kartā

doer in Tamil

தொழில்செய்பவன், தீவிர வேலைக்காரன்

doer in Marathi

doer: कर्ता kartā

doer in Urdu

doer: زن zan

More languagesFewer languages

doer in Malayalam: പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നവൻ, നിറവേറ്റുന്നവൻ, ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, കർമ്മാ
doer in Kannada: ಮಾಡುಗ, ಆಗುಗ
doer in Sanskrit: कर्तृ kartṛ
doer in Assamese: কৰোঁতা korü̃ta
doer in Arabic: فَاعِل fāʕil, فَاعِلَة fāʕila

Examples of doer in a sentence

You left your lordness, your person doer of justice, maker of order.
That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer.
Are you a doer or a relaxer?

All 14 example sentences with doer

Synonyms of doer

Antonyms

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Forms of doer

plural	doers

Plural of doer: doers

Origin of doer

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.

Words formed from doer

Words that rhyme with doer

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Questions about doer

What does doer mean?: Doer means someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
What is doer in Hindi?: Doer in Hindi is कर्ता (kartā). See Doer meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is doer?: Doer is a noun.
How do you pronounce doer?: Doer is pronounced /ˈduː.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of doer?: The plural of doer is doers.

Words near doer in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: doer (page history and authors); doer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कर्ता (Marathi) (page history and authors); زن (Urdu) (page history and authors); doer (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); doer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কৰোঁতা (Assamese) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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