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mender

mender noun: a person who mends.

Noun

mender (plural menders)

  1. A person who mends.
    • The face of the old umbrella mender lighted up with a kindly smile as he commented on the strange conduct of my umbrella in slipping a cog just as he happened to come along. I asked him by what evil magic he did the trick and he laughed in a half-hearted way just to be polite, but it was plain that...1916 [1913 March 1], Eugene V. Debs, “The Old Umbrella Mender”, in Labor and Freedom, St. Louis: Phil Wagner, →OCLC, page 10

Forms of mender

pluralmenders

Origin of mender

From mend + -er.

Words formed from mender

Questions about mender

What does mender mean?
Mender means a person who mends.
What part of speech is mender?
Mender is a noun.
What is the plural of mender?
The plural of mender is menders.

Words near mender in the dictionary

  1. Mendelssohn
  2. Mendelssohnian
  3. Mendelssohnic
  4. Mendelssohns
  5. Mendenhall
  6. mender
  7. Menderes vimba
  8. menderies
  9. menders
  10. Menderson
  11. mendery

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