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Caller   /kˈɔlər/   Listen
Caller

noun
1.
A social or business visitor.  Synonym: company.
2.
An investor who buys a call option.
3.
The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands.
4.
A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance.  Synonym: caller-out.
5.
Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice.
6.
The person who convenes a meeting.
7.
The person initiating a telephone call.  Synonyms: caller-up, phoner, telephoner.
adjective
1.
Providing coolness.  "'caller' is a Scottish term as in 'a caller breeze'"
2.
Fresh.



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"Caller" Quotes from Famous Books



... how terrible! And that pretty, pretty woman!" cried Polly, and drove her thoughts backwards: she had seen no hint of tragedy in her caller's lovely face. However, she did not wait to ponder, but asked, a little anxiously: "But you'll go, dear, ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson
... faded. The slim hand that held the rose trembled a very little. Her first caller! She decided that it would be best not to talk about George. Not one word about George! Her feelings were ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... be given in a few words, but it teaches a truth about paid employment which many girls need to learn. One day a woman called to see an important public man on a matter of business. When she came he was dictating a letter. He saw his caller as soon as he had finished. Before the conversation had well begun, his secretary came to the door and asked him to what address he wished the letter sent. When the secretary had gone out again, the man looked at his visitor and said laughing, yet with ...
— The Canadian Girl at Work - A Book of Vocational Guidance • Marjory MacMurchy
... Bobby Bobolink had been listening anxiously. And when he heard his wife's last remark he was so overjoyed that he sprang into the air and began to sing the happiest song he knew, while he darted back and forth above the heads of his wife and their caller. ...
— The Tale of Bobby Bobolink - Tuck-me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey
... granted, and of making them comfortable until Helen came and took them off her hands. She had, he inferred, many interests of her own, and did not waste much conjecture on stray callers. Franklin was quite content to count as a stray caller, and he had always conjecture enough for two in any encounter. He talked away in his even, deliberate tones, while they drank tea and ate the hottest of muffins that stood in a covered dish on ...
— Franklin Kane • Anne Douglas Sedgwick


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