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Definition of Minder
1. Noun. Someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors. "I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us"
2. Noun. A person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working.
Definition of Minder
1. n. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
Definition of Minder
1. Noun. One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper ¹
2. Noun. (British) A personal bodyguard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Minder
1. one that minds [n -S] - See also: minds
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minder
Literary usage of Minder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1777)
"... church was then the City minder, and in the books of the church there is now
to be feen a Charge for fitting up the church for the reception of King ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[This] must be reassuring doctrine to the minder» of mules. ... A house in which
minders (see minder,) are kept and taught. [Rare.] I keep a minding-school. ..."
3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"Descending comparison of adjectives and adverbs is formed by placing weniger or
minder less before the positive to form the comparative, and am wenigsten or ..."
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