noun
Meaning 1
A person who rides a surfboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
surfer
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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/ˈsɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)fə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: S ER1 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who surfs the Internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
someone who engages in surfboarding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: surfboarder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: swimmer, natator, bather
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English suffe? English suff? English surf 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 surfer From surf + -er.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: surflari — person who rides a surfboard
- Catalan: surfista — person who rides a surfboard
- Czech: surfař — person who rides a surfboard
- Finnish: lainelautailija — person who rides a surfboard
- French: surfeur — person who rides a surfboard
- French: surfeuse — person who rides a surfboard
- Galician: surfista — person who rides a surfboard
- German: Wellenreiter — person who rides a surfboard
- Hebrew: גּוֹלֵשׁ (golésh) — person who rides a surfboard
- Hungarian: hullámlovas — person who rides a surfboard
- Hungarian: szörföző — person who rides a surfboard
- Italian: surfer — person who rides a surfboard
- Italian: surfista — person who rides a surfboard
- Māori: kaiheke — person who rides a surfboard
- Māori: kaiwhakahekeheke — person who rides a surfboard
- Polish: surfer — person who rides a surfboard
- Polish: surferka — person who rides a surfboard
- Portuguese: surfista — person who rides a surfboard
- Russian: сёрфинги́ст (sjorfingíst) — person who rides a surfboard
- Samoan: tagata fa'ase'e — person who rides a surfboard
- Spanish: surfista — person who rides a surfboard
- Spanish: surfero — person who rides a surfboard
- Thai: นักโต้คลื่น (nák-dtôo-klʉ̂ʉn) — person who rides a surfboard
- Tongan: tokotaha fānifo — person who rides a surfboard
- Dutch: surfer — person who surfs the Internet
- Dutch: internetter — person who surfs the Internet
- Esperanto: retumanto — person who surfs the Internet
- Finnish: surffaaja — person who surfs the Internet
- French: internaute — person who surfs the Internet
- Italian: navigatore — person who surfs the Internet
- Italian: internauta — person who surfs the Internet
- Malay: pelayar — person who surfs the Internet
- Polish: internauta — person who surfs the Internet
- Polish: surfer — person who surfs the Internet
- Portuguese: internauta — person who surfs the Internet
- Spanish: internauta — person who surfs the Internet
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