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ruminator

ruminator noun: one who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.

Noun

ruminator (plural ruminators)

  1. One who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
    • An all-round terrific lady: sweet, compassionate, busty, pert-nosed, prone to floods of sudden tears, a lover of mini-skirts and tall leather boots and snug sweaters, which you somehow wore with total innocence, a worrier, a sweet ruminator by windows. a girl possessed of incredibly long. elegant...2008, Christopher Goffard, Snitch Jacket, page 74
    • The narrator is a reader and ruminator, a provocateur.2009 January 25, Maria Russo, “Unhappy Together”, in The New York Times

Forms of ruminator

pluralruminators

Origin of ruminator

From ruminate + -or.

Words that rhyme with ruminator

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Questions about ruminator

What does ruminator mean?
Ruminator means one who ruminates; one who meditates or reflects.
What part of speech is ruminator?
Ruminator is a noun.
What is the plural of ruminator?
The plural of ruminator is ruminators.

Words near ruminator in the dictionary

  1. rumination
  2. rumination syndrome
  3. ruminations
  4. ruminative
  5. ruminatively
  6. ruminator
  7. ruminators
  8. ruminatory
  9. ruminitis
  10. rumino
  11. ruminococcal

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