LAUDER

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• LAUDER (noun)
  The noun LAUDER has 2 senses:

1. Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)

2. someone who communicates high praise

  Familiarity information: LAUDER used as a noun is rare.

• LAUDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harry Lauder; Lauder; Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who communicates high praise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

extoller; laudator; lauder

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

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lauder"):

applauder; clapper (someone who applauds)

Derivation:

laud (praise, glorify, or honor)

 Context examples 

You may have some recollection of the death of Mrs. Stewart, of Lauder, in 1887.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)