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Caller   /kˈɔlər/   Listen
Caller

noun
1.
A social or business visitor.  Synonym: company.
2.
An investor who buys a call option.
3.
The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands.
4.
A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance.  Synonym: caller-out.
5.
Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice.
6.
The person who convenes a meeting.
7.
The person initiating a telephone call.  Synonyms: caller-up, phoner, telephoner.
adjective
1.
Providing coolness.  "'caller' is a Scottish term as in 'a caller breeze'"
2.
Fresh.



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"Caller" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor with a large family and a small practice. An old oil cloth, whole, but with its pattern half washed off, covered the narrow hall—an old stair-carpet of originally good quality, but now thread-bare in places, covered the steps. This was all that could be seen from the open door by any chance caller. But upstairs all ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, And snuff the caller air. The risin' sun owre Galston muirs Wi' glorious light was glintin; The hares were hirplin down the furrs, The lav'rocks they were chantin Fu' sweet ...
— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp
... exhausted his cigar, tossed the stump into the fire, and, muttering to himself, "Who the devil!" went down to meet his caller. ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... equally incompetent at golf. Perhaps I foozled my drive rather worse than Henry, but then he never took fewer than five strokes on the green, whereas I have occasionally done it in four. Then we mutually detested gramophones. But when we discovered that we could both play 'Caller Herrin'' on the piano with one finger (entirely by ear) we felt that we were affinities, and got married ...
— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick
... the vials of his wrath were poured out was the parson, who came a-calling one afternoon. News that he was in the parlour was sufficient to bring Mr. Meredith downstairs prematurely, where he enacted a high scene, berating the caller, and finally ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford


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