appearer

English

Etymology

From appear +‎ -er.

Noun

appearer (plural appearers)

1. (rare) Someone who or something which appears.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.

   1. One who makes an appearance in court.

Derived terms

• nonappearer

 

Anagrams

• præpare, rapparee, reappear