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reaper

/ˈɹiːpɚ/

reaper noun: one who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping. Also the ellipsis of Grim Reaper.

reaper: one who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping
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Noun (1)

reaper (plural reapers)

  1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
    • Even as we looked some rumour seemed to have spread, for we saw the reapers hurrying from the fields.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. A machine used to harvest crops.
  3. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

Noun (2)

reaper (plural reapers)

  1. (India, obsolete) Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

Also used as

reaper is also the ellipsis of Grim Reaper.

reaper meaning in Urdu, Gujarati, Arabic and Indonesian

reaper in Urdu

ریپر

reaper in Gujarati

રીપર

reaper in Arabic

one who reaps
حَصَّاد ḥaṣṣād

reaper in Indonesian

one who reaps
pembabat

Examples of reaper in a sentence

  • But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.
  • Now if you all follow me to the first brothel house on reaper street.
  • The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.

All 11 example sentences with reaper

Forms of reaper

pluralreapers

Plural of reaper: reapers

Origin of reaper

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.

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Questions about reaper

What does reaper mean?
Reaper means one who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
What is reaper in Urdu?
Reaper in Urdu is ریپر. See Reaper meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is reaper?
Reaper is a noun.
How do you pronounce reaper?
Reaper is pronounced /ˈɹiːpɚ/.
What is the plural of reaper?
The plural of reaper is reapers.

Words near reaper in the dictionary

  1. reaped the harvest
  2. reaped the whirlwind
  3. reaped what one had sown
  4. reaped what one has sown
  5. reaped what one sowed
  6. reaper
  7. reaper-binder
  8. reaper-binders
  9. reapers
  10. reapest
  11. reapeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reaper (page history and authors); reaper (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reaper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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