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English
Etymology
astound + -er
Noun
astounder (plural astounders)
- A person who astounds.
1892, John James Aubertin, chapter 2, in Wanderings and Wonderings, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, page 21:[…] while waiting for my interview at Government House, I had been dazzled by two most gorgeously-apparelled Rajahs, who went in before me; and as I heard that the Viceroy was to have a farewell garden party on Friday, the 7th of December, I was most anxious to see […] a crowd of these astounders.
1922, James J. Davis, chapter 42, in The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 236:I am an educator of the young, not an astounder of the old; and it is for the boys and girls who read my book that I thus point the morals that life’s tale has taught me.
- 1970, Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau: A Biography, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 3, p. 88,
- the insecurity that made Diaghilev’s command important to him permeated his achievement with the compulsion to astound and to associate himself with astounders.
- A thing or occurrence that astounds.
1876, May Agnes Fleming, chapter 5, in A Mad Marriage, New York: G.W. Carleton, page 328:“My dear France,” he says, holding both her hands, “this is an astounder. We knew you were coming, but not so soon. When did you arrive, and where are you located?”
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