ROUSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rouser mean? 

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

1. someone who rouses others from sleep

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who rouses others from sleep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arouser; rouser; waker

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

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Derivation:

rouse (cause to become awake or conscious)

 Context examples 

I give you my word it was a deal worse than any of your scoldings, a regular rouser.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)