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non-drinker

non-drinker is the alternative form of nondrinker.

Meaning of nondrinker

Noun

nondrinker (plural nondrinkers)

  1. One who does not drink alcohol; a teetotaler.
    • A majority of adolescents (66%) believe that an adolescent who changed from heavy drinker to nondrinker will be accepted by nondrinkers/moderate drinkers.1985, The Journal of Applied Social Sciences, Volumes 10-11, Digitized edition, Case Western Reserve University, published 2006, page 17
  2. Someone who does not drink a specified beverage (milk, wine, coffee, etc).
    • Data were analyzed to test differences between: (1) drinkers and nondrinkers of milk, and (2) [...]1959, Daniel A. Swope, Francena Lounsbery Nolan, Basic Appeals in Consumer Acceptance of Milk

Forms of non-drinker

pluralnon-drinkers

Origin of non-drinker

From non- + drinker.

Questions about non-drinker

What is non-drinker the alternative form of?
Non-drinker is the alternative form of nondrinker.

Words near non-drinker in the dictionary

  1. non-doing
  2. non-dom
  3. non-dominant
  4. non-dominants
  5. non-doms
  6. non-drinker
  7. non-drinkers
  8. non-driven
  9. non-driver
  10. non-drivers
  11. non-driving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: non-drinker (page history and authors); nondrinker (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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