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polisher

polisher noun: a person who makes something smooth or shiny.

Noun

polisher (plural polishers)

  1. A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
  2. A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
  3. A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
    • Where do you keep the floor-polisher?
    Synonyms:
    polishing machine
  4. A person who refines something.
    • a polisher of stories
    • When he had repoſed four years and four months in the boſom of care, rocked in the cradle of proſperity, he was brought forth, according to the cuſtom of true believers, and committed to the charge of moralifts of high fame, poliſhers of noble manners, and ſearchers of true knowledge, that they...1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 4

Synonyms of polisher

Forms of polisher

pluralpolishers

Origin of polisher

From polish + -er.

Words formed from polisher

Phrases with polisher

Questions about polisher

What does polisher mean?
Polisher means a person who makes something smooth or shiny.
What part of speech is polisher?
Polisher is a noun.
What is the plural of polisher?
The plural of polisher is polishers.

Words near polisher in the dictionary

  1. polished the pearl
  2. polished up
  3. polished up on
  4. polishedly
  5. polishedness
  6. polisher
  7. polishers
  8. polishes
  9. polishes a turd
  10. polishes off
  11. polishes one's rocket

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