runner
pronunciation
How to pronounce runner in British English:
UK [ˈrʌnə(r)]
How to pronounce runner in American English:
US [ˈrʌnɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- someone who travels on foot by running
- a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
- a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a trained athlete who competes in foot races
- a long narrow carpet
- device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
- fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
Word Origin
- runner (n.)
- c. 1300, "messenger on foot," agent noun from run (v.). Meaning "one who runs" is early 14c. Meaning "smuggler" first recorded 1721; sense of "police officer" is from 1771. Meaning "rooting stem of a plant" is from 1660s; that of "embroidered cloth for a table" is from 1888.
Example
- 1. Every runner in ethiopia dreams of being an olympic champion like them .
- 2. We wouldn 't expect to be a strong runner without doing some training .
- 3. Run with an i.d. or a runner 's i.d. in your shoe just in case .
- 4. As you can tell , the founder of runsome is definitely not the fastest or most impressive runner .
- 5. Spiegel : before you became a writer and a runner , you owned a jazz club in tokyo .