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doter

/ˈdəʊtə(ɹ)/

doter noun: synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”).

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

doter meaning in Tamil

doter in Tamil

மதிமயங்கியோன்

Synonyms of doter

Forms of doter

pluraldoters

Origin of doter

From dote + -er.

Words that rhyme with doter

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about doter

What does doter mean?
Doter means synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”).
What is doter in Tamil?
Doter in Tamil is மதிமயங்கியோன். See Doter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is doter?
Doter is a noun.
How do you pronounce doter?
Doter is pronounced /ˈdəʊtə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of doter?
The plural of doter is doters.

Words near doter in the dictionary

  1. dotel
  2. dotels
  3. Doten
  4. Doteng
  5. Dotens
  6. doter
  7. doteries
  8. doters
  9. dotery
  10. dotes
  11. dotes over

Source and license

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