say it: di-SPEN-sur
dispenser is a noun meaning "a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts
a person who dispenses
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 dispenser 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.