Meanings
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1
noun
a person who strongly dislikes someone or something
He was once a hater of opera, but a live performance changed his mind.
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2
noun
informal: a person who voices persistent, often unfair hostility or criticism
She ignored the online haters and continued sharing her work.
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Etymology
From Middle English hatere, formed from hate + the agent suffix -er. The modern informal sense for a persistently hostile critic became especially common in late twentieth-century popular culture.