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 Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪ʊrnɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtur.ner/, [ˈt̪urner]

turner m (genitive turnerī); second declension

1. bugler
2. trumpeter

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• (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

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• 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)