Usually means: Announcer of news in public.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. crier: Merriam-Webster
  2. crier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crier: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crier: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crier, crier: Wordnik
  7. crier: Wiktionary
  8. crier: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. crier: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. crier: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Crier, crier: Dictionary.com
  12. crier: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Crier: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. crier: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. crier: Rhymezone
  16. Crier, crier: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. crier: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. crier: FreeDictionary.org
  19. crier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. crier: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Crier: Wiktionary
  22. crier: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. crier: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crier: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CRIER, CRIER, CRIER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crier: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Crier)

▸ noun:  One who cries.
▸ noun:  An officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation, such as a town crier.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
weeper, town crier, outcrier, lachrymist, shrieker, aim-crier, Sayer, reciter, bewailer, screamer, more...

Opposite:
comforter, consoler

Phrases:
town crier, catherine crier, common crier, aim crier, more...

Adjectives:
town, public, common, old, official, court, indian, city, street, sombre, royal


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Similar:
weeper, town crier, outcrier, lachrymist, shrieker, aim-crier, Sayer, reciter, bewailer, screamer, more...

Opposite:
comforter, consoler

Phrases:
town crier, catherine crier, common crier, aim crier, more...

Adjectives:
town, public, common, old, official, court, indian, city, street, sombre, royal



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