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floater

noun
/ˈfləʊtə/UK/ˈfloʊtəɹ/US

Etymology

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Compare Old English flota (“boat, ship", also "sailor, pirate”, literally “floater”), whence Middle English flote (“a fleet of ships", also, "a float, flotation device”).

  1. derived from *plewd-✻
  2. inherited from *flutōną✻ — “to float”
  3. inherited from *flotōn✻
  4. inherited from flotian — “to float”
  5. inherited from floten
  6. suffixed as floater — “float + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who floats.

    • Great God of VVaters [i.e., Neptune], vvhoſe extended Svvay / Is next to his, vvhom Heav'n and Earth obey: / Let not the Suit of Venus thee diſpleaſe, / Pity the Floaters on th' Ionian Seas.

  2. A thing which floats.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA