NOUN | person | Spender, Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender | English poet and critic (1909-1995) |
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person | spender, spendthrift, spend-all, scattergood | someone who spends money prodigally | |
person | spender, disburser, expender | someone who spends money to purchase goods or services |
Sounds | speh'nder | |
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Rhymes | adder ... Zealander: 203 rhymes with der... |
Meaning | English poet and critic (1909-1995). | |
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Synonyms | Stephen Spender, Sir Stephen Harold Spender | |
Instance of | literary critic | A critic of literature |
poet | A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) | |
Spanish | Stephen Spender | |
Catalan | Stephen Spender |
Meaning | someone who spends money prodigally. | |
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Synonyms | spendthrift, spend-all, scattergood | |
Narrower | big spender, high roller | One who spends lavishly and ostentatiously on entertainment |
Broader | prodigal, profligate, squanderer | A recklessly extravagant consumer |
Spanish | derrochador, despilfarrador, gastador, manirroto, manisuelto, pródigo | |
Catalan | balafiador, gastador, malgastador | |
Verbs | spend | spend completely |
Meaning | someone who spends money to purchase goods or services. | |
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Synonyms | disburser, expender | |
Broader | customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services |
Spanish | derrochador, expender, gastador | |
Catalan | despenedor, gastador, malgastador | |
Verbs | spend | pay out |
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