Synonyms for saver


Grammar : Noun
Spell : seyv
Phonetic Transcription : seɪv


Définition of saver

Origin :
  • c.1300, "savior," agent noun from save (v.). Meaning "one who economizes" is 1540s; meaning "means of saving" is from 1660s.
  • As in pack rat : noun someone that hoards objects
Example sentences :
  • Eh, Saver above, it wouldn't be the death of his sister—of Connor's Oona!
  • Extract from : « Fardorougha, The Miser » by William Carleton
  • And his popular sobriquet was Simon the Saver (Anglicè, miser).
  • Extract from : « Fifty-Two Stories For Girls » by Various
  • The sight of his patron, the saver of his life, is like having it saved a second time.
  • Extract from : « The Flag of Distress » by Mayne Reid
  • He was, “in the best sense,” she wrote elsewhere, “a saver of men.”
  • Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook
  • Ma allers said, 'If the time comes when you have to marry, marry a saver!'
  • Extract from : « The Wooing of Calvin Parks » by Laura E. Richards
  • Civilization is a saver of life into life and death into death.
  • Extract from : « Twentieth Century Negro Literature » by Various
  • It's upon your two knees you ought to drop, an'—Saver above, what's the matther wid him?
  • Extract from : « Fardorougha, The Miser » by William Carleton
  • The determining factor in the situation is the attitude of the saver toward the capital sum accumulated.
  • Extract from : « Distributive Justice » by John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
  • It was no new thing to me to know the Irish peasant in his character as a hoarder and a saver.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • For ten generations he was the only money-maker and saver, and yet he was as free and liberal as possible.
  • Extract from : « Amaryllis at the Fair » by Richard Jefferies

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