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imprinters

imprinters is the plural of imprinter.

Meaning of imprinter

Noun

imprinter (plural imprinters)

  1. A device that imprints.
  2. A person who does imprinting with such a device.
  3. An organism that imprints, or forms an attachment.
    • This would be unlikely with a very rapid imprinter such as a duckling or a chick, but mammals tend to become socialized more slowly.2009, Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, page 101

Questions about imprinters

What is imprinters the plural of?
Imprinters is the plural of imprinter.

Words near imprinters in the dictionary

  1. imprinted
  2. imprinted on
  3. imprintee
  4. imprintees
  5. imprinter
  6. imprinters
  7. imprintery
  8. imprintest
  9. imprinteth
  10. imprinting
  11. imprinting on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imprinters (page history and authors); imprinter (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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