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4-letter words (6 found)

DERO,DOER,DORE,REDO,RODE,ROED,

3-letter words (9 found)

DOE,DOR,ODE,ORD,ORE,RED,REO,ROD,ROE,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DO,ED,ER,OD,OE,OR,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from doer according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of doer

doer

English

Etymology

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈduː.ə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈduː.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: dewar, Dewar

Noun

doer (plural doers)

  1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:doer
    Antonyms: (versus agent) doee; patient; (versus active person) idler; see also Thesaurus:idler
    Coordinate term: be-er

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, orde, redo, rode, roed

Afrikaans

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Pronunciation

Adverb

doer

  1. way over there; far away
    Hulle gesels daar doer. ― They're talking way over there.
    Doer, anderkant die berge! ― Far away, on the other side of the mountains!

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doer (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin dolēre, from Proto-Italic *doleō (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti (“divide”), from *delh₁- (“cut”). Cognate with Portuguese doer and Spanish doler.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈeɾ]

Verb

doer (first-person singular present doio, first-person singular preterite doín, past participle doído)
doer (first-person singular present doo, first-person singular preterite doim or doí, past participle doído, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (intransitive) to ache, hurt; to cause pain
  2. (pronominal) to take pity

Conjugation

References

  • Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “doer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “doer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “doer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “doer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • doere, doar

Etymology

From don +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdoːər(ə)/

Noun

doer (plural doers)

  1. doer, agent (someone who does, performs, or executes)
  2. offender (criminal who commits a specified crime)
  3. (rare) cause, reason

Derived terms

  • yvel doer

Descendants

  • English: doer

References

  • “dọ̄er(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • do

Noun

doer m or n

  1. indefinite plural of do

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doer, from Latin dolēre, from Proto-Italic *doleō (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti (“divide”), from *delh₁- (“cut”). Cognate with Galician doer and Spanish doler.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: do‧er

Verb

doer (third-person only, third-person singular present dói, third-person singular preterite doeu, past participle doído)

  1. (intransitive) to hurt (be painful)
    Minha perna doía tanto que eu não conseguia andar. ― My leg was hurting so much that I couldn’t walk.
    Injeções doem. ― Injections hurt.
  2. (transitive, figurative) to hurt; to pain (cause emotional pain)
    Dói-me ver o sofrimento dessas pessoas. ― It pains me to see these people’s suffering.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • de doer

Related terms

Further reading

  • “doer”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
  • “doer”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
  • “doer” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “doer”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  • “doer”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
  • “doer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • deler, deuer (imperative)

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdoːɨ̯r/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɔi̯r/
  • Rhymes: -oːɨ̯r
  • Homophone: doir (South Wales)

Verb

doer

  1. (literary) present subjunctive/imperative impersonal literary of dod

Mutation


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