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hatter

/ˈhætə(ɹ)/

hatter noun: a person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.

hatter: a person who makes, sells, or repairs hats
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Noun (1)

hatter (plural hatters)

  1. A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.
    Synonyms:
    hatmaker, milliner
  2. (Australia, slang) A person who lives alone in the bush.
    • Lonely hut where drought’s eternal, suffocating atmosphere
      Where the God-forgotten hatter dreams of city life and beer.1892, Henry Lawson, Up The Country
  3. A miner who works by himself.

Verb

hatter (third-person singular simple present hatters, present participle hattering, simple past and past participle hattered)

  1. To tire or worry.
    • They may Hatter an indifferent Beauty; but the Excellencies of Nature can have no Right done to them1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number)

Noun (2) capitalized: Hatter

Hatter (plural Hatters)

  1. Someone from Luton
  2. someone connected with Luton Town Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
  3. (Canada) Someone from Medicine Hat

hatter meaning in Tamil and Urdu

hatter in Tamil

தொப்பி செய்து விற்பவன், தொப்பிக்காரன், தனிவாசி, கால்நடை மேய்த்தல்

hatter in Urdu

ٹوپی بنانے والا

Synonyms of hatter

Forms of hatter

Noun
pluralhatters
pluralHatters
Verb
third-person singular presenthatters
present participlehattering
past participlehattered
pasthattered

Plural of hatter: hatters

Origin of hatter

From Middle English hatter; equivalent to hat + -er.

From an English dialect word, meaning "to entangle"; compare Low German verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.

Words formed from hatter

Phrases with hatter

Words that rhyme with hatter

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Questions about hatter

What does hatter mean?
Hatter means a person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.
What is hatter in Tamil?
Hatter in Tamil is தொப்பி செய்து விற்பவன், தொப்பிக்காரன், தனிவாசி. See Hatter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hatter?
Hatter can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce hatter?
Hatter is pronounced /ˈhætə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of hatter?
The plural of hatter is hatters.

Words near hatter in the dictionary

  1. hatted
  2. Hattem
  3. Hattemer
  4. Hatten
  5. Hattendorf
  6. hatter
  7. Hatteras
  8. Hatteras Island
  9. hattered
  10. hatteria
  11. hatterias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatter (page history and authors); Hatter (page history and authors); hatter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hatter (Urdu 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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