finder
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈfaɪndə//
- États-Unis//ˈfaɪndəɹ//
One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
nom
- 1
One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
- 2
A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
- 3
historiqueA person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
Étymologie
From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.
Formes
- pluriel
- finders
finder · One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
Finder · A surname from German.finding · A result of research or an investigation.findings · Small tools and materials used by artisans and craftsmen