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archer

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɑː.t͡ʃəː//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈɑː.t͡ʃʰəː]/
  • United States//ˈɑɹ.t͡ʃɚ//
  • United States/[ˈɑɹ.t͡ʃʰɚ] ~ [ˈɑɹ.t͡ʃʰɹ̩]/

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

noun

  1. 1

    One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

  2. 2

    historicalThe bishop in chess.

Etymology

from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.

adjective

  1. 1

    Also a form of archcomparative form of arch: more arch

Forms

plural
archers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).