: an appliance for holding or inserting a charge of powder or shot in a gun
b
: a cartridge clip
c
: a device for charging storage batteries
2
: a horse for battle or parade
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The new Southwest rule goes even further than the limit of two chargers per passenger that the International Civil Aviation Organization recommended last month.—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026 Louise got out of bed, groped her way across the dark room, found her phone tethered to the charger, then scrolled back through her photos to find the grainy twenty-seven-second video of the ants.—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 Running out of battery while traveling is not an option, which is why a portable charger always makes the cut.—Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2026 Most solar chargers claim 25 percent output in the shade.—Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for charger
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English chargeour, borrowed from Anglo-French, from charger "to load, burden" + -eour-er entry 2 — more at charge entry 1
Note:Oxford English Dictionary, first edition, Middle English Dictionary, and Französisches etymologisches Wörterbuch treat the etymon of this word as distinct from the etymon of charger entry 2, presumably on the grounds that the suffix, here designating a place, goes back to -eoir, from Latin -ātōrium, though there is little evidence for this in manuscript spellings. The meaning "dish or platter" found in Anglo-French appears not to have a parallel on the continent.
Noun (2)
Middle English chargere "someone who loads or burdens," from charger "to load, burden" + -ere-er entry 2 — more at -er entry 2 — more at charge entry 1