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 Definitions of quaker  [ˈkweɪ kər]  

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Definition of 'quaker' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) Quaker
a member of the Society of Friends, a Christian denomination founded by George Fox in 1650; Friend.

Etymology:  (1650–60; orig. pejorative; alluding to the supposed “shaking and quaking” of participants in early Friends' meetings)

Definition of 'quaker' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) Friend, Quaker
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

2. (noun) quaker, trembler
one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear


Definition of 'quaker' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) quaker
one who quakes

2. (noun) quaker
one of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4

3. (noun) quaker
the nankeen bird

4. (noun) quaker
the sooty albatross

5. (noun) quaker
any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight



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