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pacer

UK/ˈpeɪsə/US/ˈpeɪsəɹ/

pacer noun: one who paces.

Noun (1)

pacer (plural pacers)

  1. One who paces.
  2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.
  3. (archaic) A horse whose natural gait is a pace (where the legs of the same side are lifted together).
    • And the hill-king spake to his footpages twain.
      Time with me goes slow. —
      "Put ye the gray pacers now unto the wain,"
      But that grief is heavy I know.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 175
  4. A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race).
  5. A timer in an electric toothbrush that indicates how long the user should spend brushing in each part of the mouth.

Noun (2)

pacer (plural pacers)

  1. (Australia) A mechanical pencil.

Proper noun capitalized: PACER

PACER

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Public Access to Court Electronic Records, an electronic public access service for United States federal-court documents.

Noun (3) capitalized: Pacer

Pacer (plural Pacers)

  1. A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144.

Forms of pacer

Noun
pluralpacers
pluralPacers
Proper noun
alternative Australian British English New Zealand variantPacer

Plural of pacer: pacers

Origin of pacer

From pace + -er.

From the brand name Pacer.

Words formed from pacer

Questions about pacer

What does pacer mean?
Pacer means one who paces.
What part of speech is pacer?
Pacer can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pacer?
Pacer is pronounced /ˈpeɪsə/ (UK).
What is the plural of pacer?
The plural of pacer is pacers.

Words near pacer in the dictionary

  1. pacemaking
  2. paceman
  3. pacemapping
  4. pacemen
  5. pacenotes
  6. pacer
  7. pacers
  8. paces
  9. paces off
  10. paces oneself
  11. paces out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pacer (page history and authors); PACER (page history and authors); Pacer (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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