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urinator

Syllables: uri·nat·or/ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/US/ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtɚ/

urinator noun: a person who urinates.

Noun (1)

urinator (plural urinators)

  1. A person who urinates.
    • [In The Strawberry Statement (1969)] James Simon Kunen chronicled his role as an activist at Columbia University during the student takeover of several campus buildings. He overcame police barricades, climbed through windows, and joined his fellows in occupying the offices of President Grayson...1996, R[obert] Emmett Tyrell, Jr., “The Making of the Clinton Cabal”, in Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 94; Boy Clinton: The Political...
    • Being an orthodox Jew, he kept his store closed on the Sabbath, and when one of his customers bemoaned his action with the remark, "It is a pity on your investment if you keep closed on Saturday; you are bound to lose it." My grandfather retorted, "Pisherke, ich huff tsu dir? Ich hab a Gutt."...2000, H. Charles Bluming, chapter 2, in Jew Boy in Goy Town: A Catskill Mountain Odyssey, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 17

Noun (2)

urinator (plural urinators)

  1. (obsolete) A diver, especially someone who searches for things underwater.
    • But above all, the diſcovery of ſubmarine treaſures is more eſpecially conſiderable, not only in regard of what hath been drowned by wrecks, but the ſeveral precious things that grow there, as Pearl, Coral Mines, with innumerable other things of great value, which may be much more eaſily found out...1680, J[ohn] Wilkins, “Concerning the Possibility of Framing an Ark for Submarine Navigations. The Difficulties and Conveniences of Such a Contrivance.”, in Mathematical Magick: Or, The Wonders that...
    • [Y]ourſelf, in the ſecond tome of Uſefulneſs, have twice told them what you know of the ſkill of ſome urinators. And it is more than ten years ſince his majeſty's urinator, Mr. Curtis, publiſhed in the Gazette, how he had practiſed, and was furniſhed with inſtruments divers, and ſhipping, to...1682 July 5, J[ohn] B[eale], “[Letter to Robert Boyle, sent from Yeovell, June 26, 1682 (Julian calendar)]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life...

Examples of urinator in a sentence

  • Ich hab a Gutt." ("Urinator, do you think I pray to you?2000, H. Charles Bluming, chapter 2, in Jew Boy in Goy Town: A Catskill Mountain Odyssey, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 17:
  • Same goes for the drunks, stoners, and public urinators.2001 May 30, Carl Hiaasen, “Go Away [May 30, 2001: Haul the Rampaging Nitwits off to Tourist Court]”, in Diane Stevenson, editor, Dance of...
  • The urinator had not had the flu or a cold for ten years, not since he started urinating wherever he pleased.2014, Jim Heynen, “Keeping One’s Secret”, in Ordinary Sins: After Theophrastus, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 82:
  • The urinators simply passed along the wall to a spot where someone else's religious symbol had been placed.2014, Sam Miller, “Prologue”, in A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London...

Forms of urinator

pluralurinators
alternative formurinater

Origin of urinator

From urinate + -or (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something).

From Latin ūrīnātor (“diver”), from ūrīnārī + -tor (suffix forming a (masculine) agent noun). Ūrīnārī is the present active infinitive of ūrīnor (“to plunge under water, dive”), possibly from ūrīna (“urine; water (?)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“to moisten; to flow”).

Questions about urinator

What does urinator mean?
Urinator means a person who urinates.
How do you use urinator in a sentence?
Ich hab a Gutt." ("Urinator, do you think I pray to you?
What part of speech is urinator?
Urinator is a noun.
How do you pronounce urinator?
Urinator is pronounced /ˈjʊəɹɪˌneɪtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of urinator?
The plural of urinator is urinators.

Words near urinator in the dictionary

  1. urination
  2. urination station
  3. urination stations
  4. urinations
  5. urinative
  6. urinator
  7. urinatorial
  8. urinators
  9. urinatory
  10. urine
  11. urine bottle

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