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joyner

joyner is the obsolete form of joiner.

Meaning of joiner

Noun (1)

joiner (plural joiners)

  1. A maker of wooden furniture or fittings.
  2. A woodworking machine used to prepare edges of wooden elements to join to other wood pieces.

Noun (2)

joiner (plural joiners)

  1. A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.
    • The zero-width joiner (ZWJ) has a code point but no corresponding symbol. It is used to connect two or more other Unicode code points to create a new "compound character" with a unique glyph all its own. […] I'm making a point of mentioning Ninja Cat because it is another example of the use of...2016 November 14, Rob Reed, “Everything You Need To Know About Emoji”, in Smashing Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2025
  2. A person who joins societies or organizations.
    • I am not a joiner. I am reluctant to sign up as a member of any organization, because I generally can't find myself or my ideas in it.2004, Eugene Goodheart, Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir
  3. (historical) Synonym of hensopper.
    Synonyms:
    hensopper

See all 6 meanings of joiner

Proper noun capitalized: Joyner

Joyner

  1. A surname.
  2. A suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia.
  3. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States.

Forms of joyner

pluraljoyners

Questions about joyner

What does joyner mean?
Joyner means a surname.
What is joyner the obsolete form of?
Joyner is the obsolete form of joiner.
What part of speech is joyner?
Joyner is a proper noun.

Words near joyner in the dictionary

  1. joyment
  2. joyn
  3. joynd
  4. joyne
  5. joyned
  6. joyner
  7. joyners
  8. joyness
  9. joyning
  10. joyns
  11. Joynson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: joyner (page history and authors); Joyner (page history and authors); joiner (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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