chaser

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsə/
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɚ/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -eɪsə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: CH EY1 S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English chaser, chacer, chasour, borrowed from Old French chaceür, chaceor, from chacier (“to chase, hunt”); later senses from or influenced by chase (“pursue”) + -er. Doublet of chasseur.

Etymology tree English chase Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chaser From chase (“groove; decorate metal”) + -er.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: преследва́ч (presledváč) — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Bulgarian: преследва́чка (presledváčka) — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Dutch: jager — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Dutch: jaagster — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Esperanto: pelanto — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Esperanto: pelantino — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Finnish: jahtaaja — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• French: poursuivant — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• French: poursuivante — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• German: Jäger — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• German: Jägerin — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• German: Verfolger — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• German: Verfolgerin — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Hungarian: üldöző — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Italian: inseguitore — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Italian: inseguitrice — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Italian: cacciatore — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Italian: cacciatrice — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Latin: secūtor — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Latin: sequūtor — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Latin: secūtrīx — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Latin: sequūtrīx — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Old English: ēhtere — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Portuguese: perseguidor — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Portuguese: perseguidora — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Romanian: urmăritor — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Romanian: urmăritoare — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Russian: пресле́дователь (preslédovatelʹ) — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Russian: пресле́довательница (preslédovatelʹnica) — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Spanish: perseguidor — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Spanish: perseguidora — person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) who chases
• Estonian: pealekas — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• French: pousse-alcool — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• French: rince-gueule — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• French: rince-cochon — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• German: Begleitgetränk — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Hebrew: צ׳ייסר (chéyser) — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Polish: popitka — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Russian: запи́вка (zapívka) — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Slovak: brzda — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Turkish: cila — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• Welsh: gwirodydd — mild drink consumed immediately after another drink of hard liquor
• German: Verfolger — someone that follows logs out of the forest
• German: Verfolgerin — someone that follows logs out of the forest
• Bulgarian: гравьор (gravjor) — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• German: Gravierer — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• German: Graviererin — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• Italian: cesellatore — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• Italian: incisore — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• Macedonian: гра́вер (gráver) — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• Romanian: gravor — someone who decorates metal by engraving or embossing
• Bulgarian: метчик (metčik) — tool used for cutting the threads of screws
• German: Gewindeschneider — tool used for cutting the threads of screws