turner

• (General American) enPR: tûrʹnər; IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.nɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tûʹnə(r); IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.nə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)

From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn +‎ -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).

turner (plural turners)

1. One who or that which turns.
2. A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
3. A kitchen utensil used for turning food.

   Synonyms: fish slice, spatula

4. (zoology) A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
5. (cricket) A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.

From German Turner (“gymnast”).

turner (plural turners)

1. (sports) An acrobat or gymnast, especially (historical) a member of the German Turnvereine, German-American gymnastic clubs that also served as nationalist political groups.

turner (plural turners)

1. (historical) An old Scottish copper coin worth two pence, issued by King James VI.

• “turner”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “turner”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “turner”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “turner”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

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turner m (plural turners, diminutive turnertje n)

1. gymnast

Latinised German Thurner (“trumpeter, bugler”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/,

turner m (genitive turnerī); second declension

1. bugler
2. trumpeter

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• (trumpeter): tubicinātor, tubocantius, tubicen

turner m (definite singular turneren, indefinite plural turnere, definite plural turnerne)

1. gymnast

• turn

• “turner” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

turner

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of torner

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-rns, *-rnt are modified to rz, rt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• turnar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• tuornar (Vallader)

From Latin tornō, tornāre (“turn”), from tornus (“lathe”).

turner

1. (Puter) to return, go back, come back
2. (Puter) to return, come back (home)