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raiser
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raiser has 2 senses
- raiser(n = noun.person) Array - a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid; Array is a kind of bridge partner
- raiser(n = noun.person) agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil; Array is a kind of farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster
Derived form verb raise16
has particulars: fruit grower, viticulturist
Derived form verb raise5
CIDE DICTIONARY
raiser, n.
One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb). [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
raiser
Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, crofter, cropper, cultivator, designer, deviser, dirt farmer, discoverer, dry farmer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, father, founder, generator, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, muzhik, organizer, originator, past master, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planner, planter, plowboy, plowman, precursor, prime mover, producer, rancher, ranchman, realizer, reaper, rustic, shaper, sharecropper, sire, smith, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, wright, yeoman
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