opener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who opens something

   The unlawful opener of the sealed letter was arrested.

2. 2
   noun

   the first event in a series

   They played an etude for their opener.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who opens something.

   Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that "the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war"?

From Middle English oppinnare, opynnare, from Old English openere, equivalent to open + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

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