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truster

US/ˈtɹʌstɚ/

truster noun: a person who trusts.

Noun

truster (plural trusters)

  1. A person who trusts.
    • I would not hear your enemy say so,
      Nor shall you do mine ear that violence
      To make it truster of your own report
      Against yourself.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • Habitues of many different countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,
      Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,1856, Walt Whitman, “Poem of the Road” [later entitled “Song of the Open Road”] in Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, p. 324

Forms of truster

pluraltrusters

Origin of truster

From trust + -er.

Questions about truster

What does truster mean?
Truster means a person who trusts.
What part of speech is truster?
Truster is a noun.
How do you pronounce truster?
Truster is pronounced /ˈtɹʌstɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of truster?
The plural of truster is trusters.

Words near truster in the dictionary

  1. trusteeism
  2. trustees
  3. trustees de son tort
  4. trusteeship
  5. trusteeships
  6. truster
  7. trusters
  8. trustest
  9. trusteth
  10. trustful
  11. trustfully

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