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crier

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cri·er  (krr)
n.
One that cries, especially:
a. An official who announces the orders of a court of law.
b. A town crier.
c. A hawker.
crier [ˈkraɪə]
n
1. a person or animal that cries
2. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) (formerly) an official who made public announcements, esp in a town or court
3. (Business / Marketing) a person who shouts advertisements about the goods he is selling
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.criercrier - a person who weeps                  
weeper
unfortunate, unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune
bawler - a loud weeper; "their new baby is a real bawler"
blubberer - someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs
2.criercrier - (formerly) an official who made public announcements
town crier
announcer - someone who proclaims a message publicly
3.crier - a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller - someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
Translations
crier
n (= town crier) → Ausrufer m; (= court crier) → Gerichtsdiener m


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The chief, and all present, listened with profound attention, and evidently with great interest; nor were the important facts thus set forth, confined to the audience in the lodge; for sentence after sentence was loudly repeated by a crier for the benefit of the whole village.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
My master alighted at an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting awhile with the inn-keeper, and making some necessary preparations, he hired the GRULTRUD, or crier, to give notice through the town of a strange creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a SPLACNUCK (an animal in that country very finely shaped, about six feet long,) and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
At the same moment the crier summoned the new witness by the extraordinary name of
Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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