declarer

1. 1.

   the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

   Synonymscontractor

   Broaderbridge player
2. 2.

   someone who claims to speak the truth

   “a bold asserter”

   “a declarer of his intentions”

   “affirmers of traditional doctrine”

   “an asseverator of strong convictions”

   “an avower of his own great intelligence”

   Synonymsasserteraffirmerasseveratoravower

   Broadercommunicator

   Narrowerpostulator

Other forms of declarer

plural

declarers·

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.

Questions about declarer

What does declarer mean?

declarer means "the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in declarer?

declarer has 3 syllables: de-cla-rer. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for declarer?

Close synonyms include contractor, asserter, affirmer, asseverator, avower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is declarer a common word?

declarer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.