TAMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tamer mean? 

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

1. an animal trainer who tames wild animals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal trainer who tames wild animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

animal trainer; handler (one who trains or exhibits animals)

Derivation:

tame (overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable)

 Context examples 

Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)