word nerd
word nerd noun: a person who is very fond of and knowledgeable about words, their uses, origins and histories, and who typically excels at anagrams, crosswords, and other word games.
Noun
word nerd (plural word nerds)
- A person who is very fond of and knowledgeable about words, their uses, origins and histories, and who typically excels at anagrams, crosswords, and other word games.
- There was no denying it: After years of being on the fringes of the national SCRABBLE® scene, I had become a bona fide “word nerd.”1994, Joe Edley, Everything Scrabble
- This admitted word nerd has dug deeply into dusty dictionaries[.]1996, San Diego Magazine, volume 49, page 30
Examples of word nerd in a sentence
- If you're a true word nerd and the definitions you get from an average dictionary just aren't satisfying, then what you need is the Oxford English Dictionary[.]1997, MacUser, volume 13, page 148, column 3:
- “Is that some word nerd thing?” I chuckled.2018, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Crime & Punctuation:
Forms of word nerd
| plural | word nerds |
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Questions about word nerd
- What does word nerd mean?
- Word nerd means a person who is very fond of and knowledgeable about words, their uses, origins and histories, and who typically excels at anagrams, crosswords, and other word games.
- How do you use word nerd in a sentence?
- If you're a true word nerd and the definitions you get from an average dictionary just aren't satisfying, then what you need is the Oxford English Dictionary[.]
- What part of speech is word nerd?
- Word nerd is a noun.
- What is the plural of word nerd?
- The plural of word nerd is word nerds.
Words near word nerd in the dictionary
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