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waster

/ˈweɪstə/WAY-stur
UK form converted from the US by rule · unchecked
/ˈweɪstɚ/WAY-stur

Meaningone who wastes

Common meaning: a person who wastes

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Journey through time

  1. Latinvastussource
  2. Old Frenchwast‘waste’source
  3. Middle Englishwastsource
  4. Englishwaste‘to use carelessly’
  5. Englishformed in English from wastewaster‘a person who wastes’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from waste + -er.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), WASTE, p.698 · scan

Source words

  • vastus Latin · source word “empty, desolate”

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