wisher
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈwɪʃər/
:
deseador
- I may not be able to ever make it back to the slums of Makuru and help build a classroom or read with a child, but I can continue to be a well-wisher of this small school that creates hope and light in a very difficult place.
- a well-wisher
Examples
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As a devoted wisher of peace, she always hoped for a resolution to the conflict.
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Yes, it's our first well-Wisher.
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Mine, as a Christian well-wisher?
Blog text (21) -
When she returns, I smile and squeeze her hand, but it is not the smile of a well-wisher.
Fiction book (1999) -
Just another wisher.
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He never bothers to talk to her as a well-wisher of the family should.
Fiction book (2000) -
Outside, hundreds of well-wishers filled the street, built their merry bonfires, sang, and cheered.
Fiction book (1996) -
She returned her attention sharply to her well-wisher, who was asking her a question about a promising student whose honors thesis he was directing.
Fiction book (2002) -
As a well-wisher of Microsoft, I can't express in words how disappointed I am to see Steven Sinofsky leave.
Blog text (30) -
My Korean ferryman sat at the oars, while behind him was my gloomy friend and well-wisher, Vanya Oganov.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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7.4
A person who expects good things to happen in hard times
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8.3
A person who wishes to have something
A person who keeps expecting good things even when it seems unlikely
A person who strongly wants something they do not have
A person who wants something very much
A person who strongly wants something they do not have
Antonyms
Compounds
How Hopeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wisher comes from the old English verb wish, which meant 'to want' or 'to hope', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a wisher is simply 'one who hopes' for something to happen.