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fruiterer

Syllables: fruit·er·er/ˈfɹuːtəɹə/US/ˈfɹutəɹə/

fruiterer noun: one who sells fruit.

fruiterer: one who sells fruit
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Noun

fruiterer (plural fruiterers)

  1. (Australia, UK) One who sells fruit.
    • [T]he very ſame day did I fight with one Samſon Stockefiſh a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne: Ieſu, Ieſu, the mad dayes that I haue ſpent!c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...
    • And Knight laughed, and drew her close and kissed her the second time, which operations he performed with the carefulness of a fruiterer touching a bunch of grapes so as not to disturb their bloom.1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘I Lull a Fancy, Trouble-Tost’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 24

fruiterer meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Assamese and Tagalog

fruiterer in Bengali

one who sells fruit
ফলবিক্রেতা pholbikreta

fruiterer in Malayalam

പഴവ്യാപാരി, ഫലവിക്രയി, ഫലക്രേതാവ്, പഴക്കച്ചവടക്കാരൻ

fruiterer in Assamese

one who sells fruit
ফল ধৰা phol dhora

fruiterer in Tagalog

one who sells fruit
magpuprutas

Synonyms of fruiterer

Forms of fruiterer

pluralfruiterers

Origin of fruiterer

From Late Middle English fruiterē̆r (“fruit grower; fruit dealer”), from fruitē̆r (“fruit dealer; household official having charge of fruit”) + -er (it is unclear why the second suffix was added). Fruitē̆r is derived from Anglo-Norman fruitier or French fruitier (“fruit-seller”), from fruit (“fruit”) (from Latin frū̆ctus (“produce, product, fruit; enjoyment, satisfaction”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to have enjoyment of; make use of”)) + -ier (suffix forming names of jobs).

Words formed from fruiterer

Questions about fruiterer

What does fruiterer mean?
Fruiterer means one who sells fruit.
What is fruiterer in Bengali?
Fruiterer in Bengali is ফলবিক্রেতা (pholbikreta). See Fruiterer meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is fruiterer?
Fruiterer is a noun.
How do you pronounce fruiterer?
Fruiterer is pronounced /ˈfɹuːtəɹə/ (UK).
What is the plural of fruiterer?
The plural of fruiterer is fruiterers.

Words near fruiterer in the dictionary

  1. fruiten
  2. fruitened
  3. fruitening
  4. fruitens
  5. fruiter
  6. fruiterer
  7. fruiterers
  8. fruiteress
  9. fruiteresses
  10. fruiteries
  11. fruiters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fruiterer (page history and authors); fruiterer (Malayalam 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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