say it: KAW-lur
caller is a noun and adjective meaning "a social or business visitor". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
“you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing”
someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
“the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner”
the person initiating a telephone call
“there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone”
providing coolness
“a cooling breeze”
“`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for caller come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.