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Noun
Our tester said the formula defined and isolated her curls, cut back on frizz, and smoothly detangled her strands before heat styling.—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2025 Our testers also found the light’s 30 LED panels to be highly effective, offering three brightness settings, with the strongest mode illuminating objects up to 25 feet away.—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025 The cheese was removed from the packaging and cut into cubes for testers to taste without any identifiable packaging.—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025 Our staff and testers A beauty product is a personal purchase.—Allure, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tester
Word History
Etymology
Noun (2)
Middle English, headboard of a bed, canopy, from Anglo-French, from teste head, from Late Latin testa skull, from Latin, shell
Noun (3)
modification of Middle French testart, from teston
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