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drinker

UK/ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)//ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/

drinker noun: someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis. Also the agent noun of drink.

Noun

drinker (plural drinkers)

  1. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
    • a heavy drinker
    • At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 280
    Synonyms:
    alcoholic
  2. A device from which animals can drink.
    • a bell drinker
    • a nipple drinker
  3. (slang) A pub.
    • Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.2011, Tony Black, Gutted, page 88
    Synonyms:
    boozer
  4. A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

Proper noun capitalized: Drinker

Drinker

  1. A surname

Also used as

drinker is also the agent noun of drink.

drinker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu

drinker in Hindi

one that drinks
शौंड śauṇḍ
regular drinker of alcohol
शौंड śauṇḍ

drinker in Tamil

குடிப்பவர்

drinker in Marathi

one that drinks
पिणारा piṇārā, पिणारी piṇārī, पिणारे piṇāre, पिणारं piṇāra

drinker in Telugu

regular drinker of alcohol
త్రాగుబోతు trāgubōtu
More languagesFewer languages
drinker in Gujarati
પીનાર, દારૂ પીનાર
drinker in Arabic
شَارِب šārib
drinker in Indonesian
peminum

Examples of drinker in a sentence

  • Are you holding that for your girlfriend, or are you a two-fisted drinker tonight?
  • He must be a heavy drinker to be able to hang with them.
  • Good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates the drinker.

All 40 example sentences with drinker

Synonyms of drinker

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of drinker

Forms of drinker

pluraldrinkers

Plural of drinker: drinkers

Origin of drinker

From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).

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Phrases with drinker

Words that rhyme with drinker

Questions about drinker

What does drinker mean?
Drinker means someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
What is drinker in Hindi?
Drinker in Hindi is शौंड (śauṇḍ). See Drinker meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is drinker?
Drinker can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce drinker?
Drinker is pronounced /ˈdɹɪŋkə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of drinker?
The plural of drinker is drinkers.

Words near drinker in the dictionary

  1. drinke
  2. drinked
  3. drinked from the furry cup
  4. drinken
  5. drinken from the furry cup
  6. drinker
  7. drinker moth
  8. drinker moths
  9. drinkerd
  10. drinkerds
  11. drinkeries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: drinker (page history and authors); Drinker (page history and authors); drinker (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drinker (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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