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DEVOURER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does devourer mean?
• DEVOURER (noun)
The noun DEVOURER has 1 sense:
1. someone who eats greedily or voraciously
Familiarity information: DEVOURER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who eats greedily or voraciously
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("devourer" is a kind of...):
eater; feeder (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
Derivation:
devour (eat up completely, as with great appetite)
Context examples
I have been a devourer of my own.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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