BREWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brewer mean? 

• BREWER (noun)
  The noun BREWER has 2 senses:

1. someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water

2. the owner or manager of a brewery

  Familiarity information: BREWER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beer maker; brewer

Hypernyms ("brewer" is a kind of...):

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

Derivation:

brew (prepare by brewing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The owner or manager of a brewery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("brewer" is a kind of...):

manufacturer; producer (someone who manufactures something)

Derivation:

brew (prepare by brewing)

 Context examples 

George Ingleston is a brewer’s drayman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among these are the family of a retired brewer called Melville, living at Abermarle Mansion, Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

L. brevis is non pathogenic but may be a concern for brewers due to its beer and wine spoilage ability.

(Lactobacillus brevis, NCI Thesaurus)

By degrees he made friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You heard how I plucked Montague the brewer!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A brewer had built it early in the period craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)