doer

See also: dóer and dör

English

Etymology

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈduː.əɹ/
• Homophones: dewar, Dewar

Noun

doer (plural doers)

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 295:

     Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].

   • 2008, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2008:

     In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:doer

Translations

Someone who does

• Arabic: فَاعِل (fāʕil)
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Coordinate terms

• be-er

Anagrams

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, orde, redo, rode, roed

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Afrikaans

Adverb

doer

1. way over there; far away

   Hulle gesels daar doer. ― They're talking way over there.

   Doer, anderkant die berge! ― Far away, on the other side of the mountains!

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• do

Noun

doer m or n

1. indefinite plural of do

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese doer, from Latin dolēre, present active infinitive of doleō, from Proto-Italic *doleō (“hurt, cause pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *dolh₁éyeti (“divide”), from *delh₁- (“cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈeɾ/, /ˈdweɾ/
• IPA^(key): /do.ˈe(ʁ)/

Verb

1. (intransitive) to hurt (to be painful)

   Minha perna doía tanto que eu não conseguia andar. ― My leg was hurting so much that I couldn’t walk.

   Injeções doem. ― Injections hurt.

2. (figurative) to hurt; to pain (to cause emotional pain)

   Me dói ver o sofrimento dessas pessoas. ― It pains me to see these people’s suffering.

Derived terms

• de doer

Related terms

• doente
• dolorido
• doloroso
• dor
• dorido
• indolor

 

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• deler, deuer (imperative)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoːɨ̯r/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔi̯r/

Verb

doer

1. (literary) present subjunctive impersonal of dod
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of dod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
doer	ddoer	noer	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.