proposer

1. 1.

   someone who advances a suggestion or proposal

   “the suggester of this absurd strategy was a fool”

   Synonymssuggester

   Broaderoriginator
2. 2.

   (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion

   Synonymsmover

   Broaderoriginator

   Narrowernominator

   order

Other forms of proposer

plural

proposers·

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 proposer

What does proposer mean?

proposer means "someone who advances a suggestion or proposal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proposer?

proposer has 3 syllables: pro-po-ser. The stress falls on "pro".

What is another word for proposer?

Close synonyms include suggester, mover. 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 proposer a common word?

proposer 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.