abider

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈbɑɪ.dɚ/(US)

Definition of abider

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)One who abides, or continues.
    “Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)One who abides, or continues.
    “Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace : speedy goers, and strong abiders : triumphers both in Camps and Courts.”
  2. One who dwells or stays; a resident.
    “But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]”
    “1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 150, Much spends the traveller more than the abider.”

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Etymology

From abide + -er.

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