noun
Meaning 1
Someone or something who changes things.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She bought a coin changer for her pool bar.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
changer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒə/
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General-American: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: CH EY1 N JH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: record changer, auto-changer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mechanical device
noun
Meaning 5
a person who changes something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an inveterate changer of the menu
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: modifier
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: adulterator, normalizer, normaliser, standardizer, standardiser
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English chaungere, chaungeour (“moneychanger”); equivalent to change + -er.