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roisterers

roisterers is the plural of roisterer.

Meaning of roisterer

Noun

roisterer (plural roisterers)

  1. One who roisters; a reveller.
    • But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians.1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Questions about roisterers

What is roisterers the plural of?
Roisterers is the plural of roisterer.

Words near roisterers in the dictionary

  1. roister
  2. roister-doister
  3. roister-doisters
  4. roistered
  5. roisterer
  6. roisterers
  7. roistering
  8. roisteringly
  9. roisterings
  10. roisterly
  11. roisterous

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