INSPIRER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inspirer mean? 

• INSPIRER (noun)
  The noun INSPIRER has 1 sense:

1. a leader who stimulates and excites people to action

  Familiarity information: INSPIRER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSPIRER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leader who stimulates and excites people to action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

galvaniser; galvanizer; inspirer

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

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

Derivation:

inspire (fill with revolutionary ideas)

 Context examples 

Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These are the sort of men that a woman could worship with all her soul, and yet be the greater, not the less, on account of her love, honored by all the world as the inspirer of noble deeds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)