FALLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faller mean? 

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

1. a person who fells trees

2. a person who falls

  Familiarity information: FALLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

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

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faller"):

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who falls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

a faller among thieves

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)