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mover

Syllables: mov·er/ˈmuːvə/

mover noun: someone who or something that moves.

Noun

mover (plural movers)

  1. Someone who or something that moves.
  2. A dancer.
  3. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
    • I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
    Synonyms:
    removalist
  4. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
  5. A product that sells well.
    • "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389
  6. (in-compounds) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.

mover meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit

mover in Tamil

கோருபவர், கொணர்பவர்

mover in Urdu

محرک

mover in Sanskrit

mover
अज ajá

Examples of mover in a sentence

  • The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
  • He really is a mover and a shaker in those circles.
  • We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.

All 17 example sentences with mover

Synonyms of mover

Forms of mover

pluralmovers

Plural of mover: movers

Origin of mover

From move + -er.

Words formed from mover

Words that rhyme with mover

Questions about mover

What does mover mean?
Mover means someone who or something that moves.
What is mover in Tamil?
Mover in Tamil is கோருபவர், கொணர்பவர். See Mover meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mover?
Mover is a noun.
How do you pronounce mover?
Mover is pronounced /ˈmuːvə/.
What is the plural of mover?
The plural of mover is movers.

Words near mover in the dictionary

  1. movements
  2. movent
  3. movents
  4. moveout
  5. moveouts
  6. mover
  7. mover and shaker
  8. movers
  9. movers and shakers
  10. moves
  11. moves about

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mover (page history and authors); mover (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mover (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अज (Sanskrit) (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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