horner

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who works or deals in (animal) horn or horns.
  2. Someone who blows a horn (for communication or musical purposes); a hornblower.
  3. Someone who cuckolds.
  4. The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.
  5. Someone from the Horn of Africa.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A hamlet in Luccombe parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and West Somerset district before that (OS grid ref SS8945).
  3. The River Horner or Horner Water, a minor river in Somerset which passes through the hamlet.
  4. An unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States; from the surname.
noun
  1. Someone who is from the Horn of Africa.
adj
  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Horn of Africa, its nations, or its inhabitants.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

horner horners more Horner most Horner

Etymology

From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.

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