partaker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
partaker (plural partakers)
- One who partakes of something.
- The joint was passed around the circle, but he was not a partaker, so he waved it away.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Won with thy words, & conquered with thy lookes,
I yeeld my ſelfe, my men & horſe to thee:
To be partaker of thy good or ill,
As long as life maintaines Theridimas.
- A partner or accomplice.
Synonyms[edit]
- (one who partakes): imbiber, participant, user
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
one who partakes of something
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