mover

English

Etymology

From move +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)

Noun

mover (plural movers)

1. Someone who or something that moves.
2. A dancer.
3. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.

   Synonym: (chiefly Australia) removalist

   I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.

4. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
5. A product that sells well.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389:

     "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• vomer

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈbe(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
• Syllabification: mo‧ver

Verb

mover

1. to move

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Verb

mover

1. to move

Related terms

• movimientu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre.

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movín, past participle movido)
mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movim or movi, past participle movido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to move

Conjugation

Interlingua

Verb

mover

1. (transitive) to move

mover se

1. (reflexive) to move

Conjugation

Old French

Verb

mover

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of movoir

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔveɾ/

Verb

mover

1. to move

Descendants

• Occitan: mòure, mòver, mòguer

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “movēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 463

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movi, past participle movido)

1. to move (change position)

   Synonyms: deslocar, mexer, movimentar

2. to induce; to persuade

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:induzir

3. (law, with contra following the object) to sue (file legal action)

   Synonym: processar

   João moveu uma ação contra Pedro. ― John sued Peter.

4. (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)

   Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

Conjugation

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre. Compare English move.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /moˈbeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present muevo, first-person singular preterite moví, past participle movido)

1. (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
2. (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
3. (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
4. (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
5. (transitive) to move to, to cause to
6. (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
7. (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
8. (reflexive) to shift

   La tierra se movió.

   The ground shifted.

9. (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
10. (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)

    La bebé no se movió para nada toda la noche.

    The baby didn't stir at all the entire night.

    ¡Deja de moverte!

    Stop fidgeting!

11. (reflexive) to get a move on (idiom)
12. (reflexive) to be moved (by a performance, etc.)

Conjugation

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Further reading

• “mover”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014