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Caller   /kˈɔlər/   Listen
Caller

noun
1.
A social or business visitor.  Synonym: company.
2.
An investor who buys a call option.
3.
The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands.
4.
A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance.  Synonym: caller-out.
5.
Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice.
6.
The person who convenes a meeting.
7.
The person initiating a telephone call.  Synonyms: caller-up, phoner, telephoner.
adjective
1.
Providing coolness.  "'caller' is a Scottish term as in 'a caller breeze'"
2.
Fresh.



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"Caller" Quotes from Famous Books



... away from my brother's hold, and ran up to my room to see if all was right for my expected caller, giving my right ear a pull, by way of saying to that victimized ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various
... in the distance a flock of geese coming. Our caller in a few seconds had their attention, and they headed towards our decoys. Soon they were directly over us, but out of easy range of our guns. We were anxious to shoot, but in obedience to our boss had to keep still, and soon noticed that the birds were soaring around and in a short ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... them on. This occasion appeared more strenuous than usual. "Son, what's the idea?" I inquired. "It's just daylight—not time to get up." He desisted from his labors long enough to pant: "Uncle Rome's—gone after turkeys. Edd's going to—call them with—a caller—made out of a turkey's wing-bone." And I said: "But they've gone now." Whereupon he subsided: "Darned old boots! I heard Edd and Uncle Rome. I'd been ready if I could have got into my darned old boots.... See here, Dad, ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey
... carefully framed, for her mind worked with great rapidity, and she was mistress of the situation almost as soon as she saw the Deacon alighting from his sleigh. He was not the sort of man to be a casual caller, and his manner bespoke an urgent errand. She had a pension of six dollars a month, but over and above that sum her living was precarious. She made coats, and she had never known want, for she was a master hand at dealing ...
— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin
... objection now; only the actress had given her in quantity what had first attracted, and quantity had palled. Beth often wished she did not discern so critically.... Just now she divined that her caller wanted to discuss Cairns' friend. The result was that Mrs. Wordling left after a half-hour, with Bedient heavier and more undeveloped than ever in her consciousness. Always a considerable social factor in her theatrical companies, Mrs. Wordling was challenged by the people of the Smilax ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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