bringer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or a thing which brings something.
    — Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news / Hath but a losing office.
  2. Someone who supplies or identifies potential recruits for the military in exchange for payment. historical,specifically
    — Hancox's recruitment would have gone something like this. In Conventry, where he may have been selling food or livestock at the town's market, he would have been intrigued by the recruiting party, especially the 'bringer', usually a sergeant, no doubt a tall man in scarlet with gold stripes on his sleeve.

词形变化

bringers plural

词汇关系

相关词
bringer-out bringer-up

词源

Etymology tree
English bring
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bringer
From bring + -er.
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