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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈduː.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈduː.ɚ/
• 韻: -uːə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: dewar, Dewar (yod-dropping)

名詞

doer (plural doers)

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:doer

   Antonyms: (versus agent) doee; patient; (versus active person) idler; see also Thesaurus:idler

   Coordinate term: be-er

   a doer of good

   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 205:

     By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.

   • 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

     The doer and the thinker
     No allowance for the other.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 295:

     Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].

   • 2008 March 25, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian:

     In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

派生語

アナグラム

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, orde, redo, rode, roed

語源

From don (“to do, put”) +‎ -ere (suffix forming agent nouns).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdoːər(ə)/

名詞

doer (plural doers)

1. doer, agent (someone who does, performs, or executes)
2. offender (criminal who commits a specified crime)
3. (rare) cause, reason

派生語

• yvel doer

派生した語

• English: doer

参照

• “dọ̄er(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.