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6-letter words (1 found)

GUNNER,

5-letter words (1 found)

ENURN,

4-letter words (7 found)

GENU,GREN,GRUE,GURN,RUNE,RUNG,URGE,

3-letter words (20 found)

ENG,ERG,ERN,GEN,GER,GNU,GUE,GUN,GUR,NEG,NUG,NUN,NUR,REG,REN,RUE,RUG,RUN,URE,URN,

2-letter words (9 found)

EN,ER,GU,NE,NU,RE,UG,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 39 words from gunner according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gunner

gunner

Etymology 1

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌn.ɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌn.ə(ɹ)/
  • Homophones: gonna (non-rhotic accents)
  • Rhymes: -ʌnə(ɹ)

Noun

gunner (plural gunners)

  1. (military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
    Synonym: (abbreviation) gnr
  2. A person who operates a gun.
  3. (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
  4. (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
  5. (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
  6. The great northern diver or loon.
  7. (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
  8. (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Cebuano: gunner
Translations

Etymology 2

Contraction

gunner

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gonna

Etymology 3

Reborrowing from Cebuano gunner, ultimately from English gunner.

Noun

gunner (plural gunners)

  1. (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.

Cebuano

Etymology

From shot (“a measure of alcohol”); the doer of a shot is a shooter, a gunner is a shooter.

Noun

gunner

  1. the person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:gunner.

Descendants

  • → English: gunner

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • goner, gonner, gunnare, gownere

Etymology

From gunne +‎ -er; compare Medieval Latin gunnārius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuˈneːr/, /ˈɡunər/

Noun

gunner (plural gunners) (Late Middle English)

  1. An operator of a cannon; an artilleryman.
  2. An operator of a siege engine.
  3. A maker of guns or cannons.

Descendants

  • English: gunner
  • Scots: gunner
  • → Medieval Latin: gunnārius

Further reading

  • “gǒnner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-23.

Spanish

Noun

gunner m or f by sense (plural gunners)

  1. Gunner (someone associated with Arsenal Football Club)

Source: wiktionary.org