crawler C2+ Topic:Transportation US /ˈkrɔlɚ/ UK /ˈkrɔːlə/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program The search engine's crawler indexes millions of new pages daily. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · something that crawls; a... spiderbotcreepertractor Word family Related forms crawlcrawling Etymology AI details From the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin. krafla Old Norse View etymology graph -> Topics Transportation Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # crawler **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈkrɔlɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈkrɔːlə/ ## Meanings 1. something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program ## Examples - The search engine's crawler indexes millions of new pages daily. ## Synonyms - spider - bot - creeper - tractor ## Related Forms - crawl - crawling ## Roots and Affixes - Root: krafla ## Etymology From the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin. ## AI Etymology Crawler is from the verb 'crawl' plus the agentive suffix '-er'. 'Crawl' is from Old Norse 'krafla' ('to claw, scrabble'), of Scandinavian origin. The immediate etymological form is Old Norse krafla. The suffix -er marks an agent, instrument, or associated person, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as a noun, it means "something that crawls; a tracked vehicle or a web-indexing program", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include crawl and crawling. ## Topics - Transportation - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown