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happeners

happeners is the plural of happener.

Meaning of happener

Noun

happener (plural happeners)

  1. (dated) One who participates in a happening.
  2. A person who makes things happen.
    • Goodparley says, 'O no and in deed he aint hes bettern clevver hes a mover hes a happener. […]'1998, Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker, page 118
  3. A person to whom things happen.
    • "No way! He's not one of these people that do things. There's two kinds of people—the doers and the happeners. He's a happener. You know, things happen to him instead."1984, Rex Burns, Strip Search: A Gabe Wager Mystery, page 23
  4. (often) An event that is expected to happen; a plan that is likely to succeed.
    • The planned access via Netizen appears not to be a happener.1999 November 21, “AGP Zero Tolerance Policy?”, in alt.gothic.pretentions (Usenet)

Questions about happeners

What is happeners the plural of?
Happeners is the plural of happener.

Words near happeners in the dictionary

  1. happened along
  2. happened by
  3. happened on
  4. happened upon
  5. happener
  6. happeners
  7. happenest
  8. happeneth
  9. happenin'
  10. happening
  11. happening across

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Adapted from Wiktionary: happeners (page history and authors); happener (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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