rapper

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From rap +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

  1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
    1. The knocker of a door.
    2. (historical, mining) A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
    3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
  2. (music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
    He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.
  3. (obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
  4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
  5. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
  6. (colloquial, dated) A bold lie; a whopper.
  7. (colloquial, dated) A loud oath.

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Danish

Etymology 1

Noun

rapper c (singular definite rapperen, plural indefinite rappere)

  1. rapper (practitioner of rap music)
Declension
Declension of rapper
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rapper rapperen rappere rapperne
genitive rappers rapperens rapperes rappernes

Verb

rapper

  1. present of rappe

Etymology 2

Verb

rapper

  1. present of rappe

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

rapper

  1. comparative degree of rap

Etymology 2

From English rapper. By surface analysis, rappen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛpər/ or as in English
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: rap‧per

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers, diminutive rappertje n)

  1. rapper (performer of rap music)

French

Etymology 1

From English rap +‎ -er.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

rapper

  1. (music) to speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rapper.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers)

  1. (music) rapper

Portuguese

Noun

rapper m or f by sense (plural rappers)

  1. rapper (hip-hop performer)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rapper.

Noun

rapper m (plural rapperi)

  1. rapper

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative rapper rapperul rapperi rapperii
genitive-dative rapper rapperului rapperi rapperilor
vocative rapperule rapperilor

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rapper.

Pronunciation

Noun

rapper m or f by sense (plural rappers)

  1. rapper (hip-hop performer)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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