trainer

trainer

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English

Etymology

train +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • (UK): IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪnə/
  • (US): enPR: trāʹnər, IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪnɚ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

trainer (plural trainers)

  1. A person who trains another; a coach.
  2. (sports) A person responsible for treating injuries sustained by players during matches; a physiotherapist.
  3. (Britain) A running shoe or sneaker.
  4. (video games, slang) A patch for a video game that applies cheats.
  5. (cycling) A piece of indoor equipment allowing a bicycle to be ridden while stationary.
  6. attributive form of trainers
    There was chewing gum stuck to my trainer soles.

Synonyms

  • (person who trains another; coach): coach
  • (running shoe): dap (UK), plimsoll (UK), running shoe, tennis shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

Derived terms

Related terms

  • train

Descendants

  • Cebuano: trainor
    • English: trainor

Translations

Anagrams

  • rantier, retrain, terrain

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

trainer m or f (plural trainers, diminutive trainertje n, feminine trainster)

  1. trainer
  2. coach

French

Pronunciation

Verb

trainer

  1. post-1990 spelling of traîner

Conjugation

Further reading

  • “trainer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • rentrai, ternira, terrain

Old French

Alternative forms

  • trahiner, traïner (diaereses are not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre, from *tragere (see treire), from Latin trahō, trahere (I pull).

Verb

trainer

  1. to drag

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • French: traîner
  • Norman: traîner
  • Galician: treinar
  • Italian: trainare
  • Middle English: trainen, traynen
    • English: train
    • Scots: train
    • Portuguese: treinar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trainer.

Noun

trainer m (plural traineri)

  1. trainer

Declension

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