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summoner

summoner noun: one who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.

Noun

summoner (plural summoners)

  1. One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
  2. (historical) An apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
  3. A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.
    • And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 119

Forms of summoner

pluralsummoners

Origin of summoner

From summon + -er.

Questions about summoner

What does summoner mean?
Summoner means one who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
What part of speech is summoner?
Summoner is a noun.
What is the plural of summoner?
The plural of summoner is summoners.

Words near summoner in the dictionary

  1. summoned
  2. summoned up
  3. summonedst
  4. summonee
  5. summonees
  6. summoner
  7. summoners
  8. summonest
  9. summoneth
  10. summoning
  11. summoning sickness

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