Usually means: Device or person initiating action.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word opener:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. opener: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opener: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opener: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opener: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opener: Vocabulary.com
  6. Open'er, Opener, opener: Wordnik
  7. opener: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opener: Wiktionary
  9. opener: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opener: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opener: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Opener, opener: Dictionary.com
  13. opener: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Open'er, Opener (album), Opener (baseball), Opener, The Opener: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Opener: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. opener: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. opener: Rhymezone
  18. opener, opener (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. opener: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. opener: Free Dictionary
  21. opener: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. opener: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opener: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. opener: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Opener: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See open as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who opens something.
noun:  A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
noun:  (in combination) An establishment that opens.
noun:  (card games) The player who starts the betting.
noun:  (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
noun:  (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
noun:  (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
noun:  (cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
noun:  (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
noun:  (sports) The first game played in a competition.
noun:  (sports) The first goal or point scored.
noun:  (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
noun:  (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.

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