caller

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adjective

cal·​ler ˈkä-lər How to pronounce caller (audio)
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Scotland : fresh
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Scotland : cool

caller

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noun

call·​er ˈkȯ-lər How to pronounce caller (audio)
: one that calls

Examples of caller in a Sentence

Noun The police have received information from an anonymous caller. She's had several callers at her house in the past few days.
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Noun
Police were called to the scene by a 911 caller who watched the incident from a apartment balcony. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2025 Manzano covered the Chiefs as a sideline reporter and was the play-by-play caller for the KC Current for Tico Sports. Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2025 About five minutes after Strader’s body was found, 911 callers reported that a man under the influence, later identified as Havrilka, was acting erratically on a street corner two miles from the motel, Hoffman said. Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025 Local police were dispatched to Franklin Lake around 2:40 p.m. after a 911 caller reported that a child had fallen throught the ice. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for caller 

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English (Scots) callour

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of caller was in the 14th century

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“Caller.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caller. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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