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Antonyms for floater

Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : floh-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfloʊ tər


Definition of floater

Origin :
  • "dead body found in water," 1890, U.S. slang, agent noun from float (v.).
  • As in illusory : adj deceptive
  • As in loan : noun money given temporarily
  • As in outsider : noun person who is foreign to something
  • As in release : noun delivery; dispensation
  • As in tramp : noun person who is poor, desperate
  • As in traveler : noun person who journeys
  • As in vagrant : noun person with no permanent home and often with no means of support
  • As in wanderer : noun person who travels aimlessly
  • As in bum : noun beggar
  • As in advance : noun money given beforehand
  • As in derelict : noun destitute or down-and-out person
  • As in alien : noun foreign being
Example sentences :
  • Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The floater under him churned a little, but there was no noise.
  • Extract from : « Unwise Child » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • At that instant her floater began to bob fiercely up and down.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy's Triumph » by Evelyn Raymond
  • This afternoon we passed a floater who had gone by us at New Madrid.
  • Extract from : « The houseboat book » by William F. Waugh
  • He was a financier and a floater of companies which generally paid.
  • Extract from : « The Coast of Adventure » by Harold Bindloss
  • We had to swim good and hard to catch up with our only hope, the floater.
  • Extract from : « Friend Island » by Francis Stevens
  • I parked my floater beside the house that had sheltered Kron as long as I had known him.
  • Extract from : « To Choke an Ocean » by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
  • Cameron wasn't a bad chap—he simply hadn't character enough to be bad—he was a floater!
  • Extract from : « The Shield of Silence » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • When the floater goes under, you will know that a fish is biting at the worm on the hook.
  • Extract from : « Seven O'Clock Stories » by Robert Gordon Anderson
  • I been along the waterfront long enough t' know that th' lad that picks up a floater gets a reward o' ten dollars from th' city.
  • Extract from : « Captain Scraggs » by Peter B. Kyne

Synonyms for floater

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