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finders

finders is the plural of finder.

Meaning of finder

Noun

finder (plural finders)

  1. One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
    • Finders keepers, losers weepers.
  2. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
    • Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
  3. (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
    • Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

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Proper noun capitalized: Finders

Finders

  1. (plural) plural of Finder

Words formed from finders

  • finders keepers

Phrases with finders

Questions about finders

What is finders the plural of?
Finders is the plural of finder.
What part of speech is finders?
Finders is a proper noun.

Words near finders in the dictionary

  1. finder-out
  2. finderlist
  3. finderlists
  4. Findern
  5. Finderne
  6. finders
  7. finders of fact
  8. finders' fees
  9. finders, keepers
  10. finders, keepers; losers, weepers
  11. finderscope

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finders (page history and authors); Finders (page history and authors); finder (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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