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souter

/ˈsuːtə/US/ˈsu.tɚ/

souter noun: a shoemaker or cobbler.

Noun

souter (plural souters)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A shoemaker or cobbler.
    • There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon
    • He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31

Proper noun capitalized: Souter

Souter (plural Souters)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Forms of souter

Noun
pluralsouters
Proper noun
pluralSouters
alternative formSoutar
alternative formSoutter

Origin of souter

Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).

From souter (“shoemaker”).

Words formed from souter

Words that rhyme with souter

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Questions about souter

What does souter mean?
Souter means a shoemaker or cobbler.
What part of speech is souter?
Souter can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce souter?
Souter is pronounced /ˈsu.tɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of souter?
The plural of souter is souters.

Words near souter in the dictionary

  1. soutanes
  2. soutar
  3. soutars
  4. souteneur
  5. souteneurs
  6. souter
  7. souterly
  8. souterrain
  9. souterrains
  10. souters
  11. south

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