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RESTORER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does restorer mean?
• RESTORER (noun)
The noun RESTORER has 1 sense:
1. a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
Familiarity information: RESTORER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
preserver; refinisher; renovator; restorer
Hypernyms ("restorer" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Derivation:
restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)
Context examples
I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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