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continuer

continuer

6.7
A person or thing that continues something already started
  • noun
  • /kənˈtɪn.jʊr/
: continuador
  • He imitated these Spanish masters and others, and he willed himself the humble continuer of Primitives.

We are students of the School of Athens, continuers of Greek freedom of thought.

Examples

  • Mathematicians often refer to a continuer as an entity that extends a function in their equations.

  • We are students of the School of Athens, continuers of Greek freedom of thought.

    Stanford

  • This use of 'and' was considered a discourse component, as a continuer and marker of the main storyline (Peterson & McCabe, 1991), not an intrasentential connector.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The artist is seen as a continuer of the traditional styles while infusing her own modern flair.

  • As a dedicated continuer of the legacy left by her predecessor, she worked hard to uphold the values of the organization.

Synonyms

continuator
vscontinuer
7.5

A person who carries on work started by someone else

is broader and also names abstract extensions in mathematics and logic

Antonyms

stopper
9 5.3

Something that suddenly stops an activity or makes people silent

Surface Forms

continuer singular
continuers plural

Morphology

continuer = continue (transparent) = continue + er

Regular agentive noun formed by adding the productive suffix '-er' to the verb 'continue', so the meaning 'one who continues' is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word continuer comes from continue plus the ending -er, which means 'one who does' something. Continue comes from older words meaning 'hold together', as in contain, so a continuer is someone or something that keeps a process, idea, or tradition going.