purser
Syllables: purs·erUK/ˈpɜːsə//ˈpɝsɚ/
purser noun: the person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
Noun
purser (plural pursers)
- The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
- So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.1660 February 10 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 1st, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume...
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or...1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- nipcheese
Proper noun capitalized: Purser
Purser (plural Pursers)
purser meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
purser in Tamil
- கப்பல்
purser in Bengali
- জাহাজের হিসাবরক্ষক, ভাণ্ডারী
purser in Malayalam
- കപ്പലിലെ കാഷ്യർ
Examples of purser in a sentence
- Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- I can't possibly have a second-class ticket.” The assistant purser examined another ledger, […]2015 August 25, Michael Kilian, Dance on a Sinking Ship, Open Road Media, →ISBN, →OCLC:
Synonyms of purser
Forms of purser
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pursers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pursers |
Origin of purser
From purse + -er.
Words formed from purser
Words that rhyme with purser
Questions about purser
- What does purser mean?
- Purser means the person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.
- What is purser in Tamil?
- Purser in Tamil is கப்பல். See Purser meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use purser in a sentence?
- Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
- What part of speech is purser?
- Purser can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce purser?
- Purser is pronounced /ˈpɝsɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of purser?
- The plural of purser is pursers.
Words near purser in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: purser (page history and authors); Purser (page history and authors); purser (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purser (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purser (Malayalam 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.
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