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bather

[ bey-ther ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that bathes.
  2. bathers, (used with a plural verb) Australian Informal. a bathing suit.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bather1

1630–40; bathe + -er 1; -s 3

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Example Sentences

Its saltness is remarkable, for the bather sits in deep water much as in an armchair, with his head and shoulders emerging.

The proprieties did not matter with this bather, who p. 40soon learnt how to splash us.

Weyburn was attracted by a diminutive white tent, of sentry-box shape, evidently a bather's, quite as evidently a fair bather's.

Sally was denouncing meteorology as imposture when the returning bather produced the effect recorded.

Here bathing wagons are drawn by a strong horse into the ocean, where the bather can take his cool plunge.

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