drinker

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈdrɪŋkər/ UK /ˈdrɪŋkə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a person who drinks, especially one who consumes alcohol

He was a moderate drinker who rarely had more than one glass.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who drinks,... imbibertipplersot toper boozer alcoholic

Opposites

abstainer teetotaler

Word family

Related forms drink drank drunk drench

Etymology

From 'drink' + agentive '-er'. The verb 'drink' is from Old English 'drincan', from Proto-Germanic '*drinkaną'.

drincan Old English *drinkaną Proto-Germanic

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# drinker

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈdrɪŋkər/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈdrɪŋkə/

## Meanings
1. a person who drinks, especially one who consumes alcohol

## Examples
- He was a moderate drinker who rarely had more than one glass.

## Synonyms
- imbiber
- tippler
- sot
- toper
- boozer
- alcoholic

## Antonyms
- abstainer
- teetotaler

## Related Forms
- drink
- drank
- drunk
- drench

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: drincan
- Root: *drinkaną

## Etymology
From 'drink' + agentive '-er'. The verb 'drink' is from Old English 'drincan', from Proto-Germanic '*drinkaną'.

## AI Etymology
Drinker is from 'drink' + agentive '-er'. The verb 'drink' is from Old English 'drincan', from Proto-Germanic '*drinkaną'. The ancestry passes through Old English drincan and Proto-Germanic *drinkaną. 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 "a person who drinks, especially one who consumes alcohol", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include drink, drank, drunk, and drench.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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