name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
stoker
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
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General-American: /ˈstoʊkɚ/
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UK: /ˈstəʊkə/
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rhymes with -əʊkə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: S T OW1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who stokes, especially one on a steamship or steam train, who stokes coal in the boilers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A device for stoking a fire; a poker.
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noun
Meaning 4
A device that feeds coal into a furnace, etc., automatically.
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noun
Meaning 5
A person who pedals on the back of a tandem bicycle.
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noun
Meaning 6
a mechanical device for stoking a furnace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mechanical device
noun
Meaning 7
a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fireman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
noun
Meaning 8
Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
History
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stoker (“stoker”), from Middle Dutch stoken (“to stoke, incite”, literally “to poke, jab, thrust”), ultimately equivalent to stoke + -er. More at stoke. Compare typologically Russian кочега́р (kočegár) (akin to кочерга́ (kočergá, “poker”)).
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: عَطَشْجِيّ (ʕaṭašjiyy) — person who stokes
- Armenian: հնոցապան (hnocʻapan) — person who stokes
- Azerbaijani: ocaqçı — person who stokes
- Belarusian: качага́р (kačahár) — person who stokes
- Belarusian: апа́льшчык (apálʹščyk) — person who stokes
- Bulgarian: огня́р (ognjár) — person who stokes
- Catalan: fogoner — person who stokes
- Chinese Mandarin: 司爐 /司炉 (sīlú) — person who stokes
- Czech: topič — person who stokes
- Danish: søfyrbøder — person who stokes
- Dutch: stoker — person who stokes
- Esperanto: hejtisto — person who stokes
- Estonian: kütja — person who stokes
- Finnish: lämmittäjä — person who stokes
- French: chauffeur — person who stokes
- Georgian: ცეცხლფარეში (cecxlpareši) — person who stokes
- German: Heizer — person who stokes
- Greek: θερμαστής (thermastís) — person who stokes
- Hebrew: מַסִּיק (masík) — person who stokes
- Hungarian: fűtő — person who stokes
- Ingrian: kocegara — person who stokes
- Italian: fuochista — person who stokes
- Japanese: 火夫 (kafu) — person who stokes
- Japanese: 火手 (kashu) — person who stokes
- Korean: 화부 (hwabu) — person who stokes
- Latvian: kurinātājs — person who stokes
- Lithuanian: kūrikas — person who stokes
- Macedonian: ложач (ložač) — person who stokes
- Malay: pendandang — person who stokes
- Norwegian Bokmål: fyrbøter — person who stokes
- Polish: palacz — person who stokes
- Polish: palacz kotłowy — person who stokes
- Portuguese: foguista — person who stokes
- Portuguese: fornalheiro — person who stokes
- Romanian: fochist — person who stokes
- Romanian: focar — person who stokes
- Russian: кочега́р (kočegár) — person who stokes
- Russian: истопни́к (istopník) — person who stokes
- Serbo-Croatian: ло̀жа̄ч — person who stokes
- Serbo-Croatian: lòžāč — person who stokes
- Slovak: kurič — person who stokes
- Slovene: kurjač — person who stokes
- Spanish: fogonero — person who stokes
- Spanish: atizador — person who stokes
- Swedish: eldare — person who stokes
- Turkish: ateşçi — person who stokes
- Ottoman Turkish: آتشجی (ateşci) — person who stokes
- Ottoman Turkish: كولخانجی (külhancı) — person who stokes
- Ukrainian: кочега́р (kočehár) — person who stokes
- Ukrainian: опа́лювач (opáljuvač) — person who stokes