Word.ws English Dictionary

pamphleteer

More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations

Canada/ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/

pamphleteer noun: a writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.

Noun

pamphleteer (plural pamphleteers)

  1. A writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.
    • The Commons are very slow in bringing in their Bill to limit the press, and the pamphleteers make good use of their time; for there come out three or four every day.1710 September 13 – 1713 June 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XLIII.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev....
    • but Charles Reade, an artist, a scholar, a man with a true sense of beauty, raging and roaring over the abuses of contemporary life like a common pamphleteer or a sensational journalist, is really a sight for the angels to weep over.1891, Oscar Wilde, Intentions

Verb

pamphleteer (third-person singular simple present pamphleteers, present participle pamphleteering, simple past and past participle pamphleteered)

  1. (intransitive) To publish and distribute pamphlets as a form of propaganda.

pamphleteer meaning in Kannada

pamphleteer in Kannada

ಕಿರುಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಲೇಖಕ, ಪ್ರಸರಣ ಗ್ರಂಥಕಾರ

Forms of pamphleteer

Noun
pluralpamphleteers
Verb
third-person singular presentpamphleteers
present participlepamphleteering
past participlepamphleteered
pastpamphleteered

Origin of pamphleteer

From pamphlet + -eer.

Words that rhyme with pamphleteer

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pamphleteer

What does pamphleteer mean?
Pamphleteer means a writer, publisher, or distributer of pamphlets, a second-rate journalist.
What is pamphleteer in Kannada?
Pamphleteer in Kannada is ಕಿರುಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಲೇಖಕ, ಪ್ರಸರಣ ಗ್ರಂಥಕಾರ. See Pamphleteer meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is pamphleteer?
Pamphleteer can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pamphleteer?
Pamphleteer is pronounced /ˌpæmfləˈtɪɹ/ (Canada).
What is the plural of pamphleteer?
The plural of pamphleteer is pamphleteers.

Words near pamphleteer in the dictionary

  1. pamphiliids
  2. Pamphill
  3. pamphlet
  4. pamphletary
  5. pamphleted
  6. pamphleteer
  7. pamphleteered
  8. pamphleteering
  9. pamphleteers
  10. pamphleter
  11. pamphleters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pamphleteer (page history and authors); pamphleteer (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Eleanorrrrrrrrrr-pamphleteer.wav.

Cite this entry: “pamphleteer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pamphleteer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.