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MENDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mender mean?
• MENDER (noun)
The noun MENDER has 1 sense:
1. a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
Familiarity information: MENDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A skilled worker who mends or repairs things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("mender" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mender"):
darner (a person who mends by darning)
maintenance man; repairman; service man (a skilled worker whose job is to repair things)
Derivation:
mend (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)
Context examples
"See what you have done! My cow has broken her leg, and I must take her to the mender's shop and have it glued on again. What do you mean by coming here and frightening my cow?"
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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