finder

English

Etymology

From Middle English findere, equivalent to find +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪndə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

finder (plural finders)

1. One who finds or discovers something.

   Finders keepers, losers weepers.

   • 2012, Alan R. Romero, Property Law For Dummies, page 229:

     The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.

2. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
   • 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:

     Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.

3. (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

     Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.

Synonyms

• (discoverer): inventor; see also discoverer

Derived terms

• Albada finder
• comet-finder
• ditchfinder
• fact-finder
• factfinder
• faultfinder
• finderlist
• finder of fact
• finderscope
• fire finder
• fishfinder
• gold-finder
• key finder
• object finder
• pathfinder
• pure finder
• radio direction finder
• rangefinder
• range finder
• rootfinder
• statefinder
• stud finder
• ugly finder
• ugly-finder
• viewfinder
• wayfinder
• witchfinder
• witch-finder

Translations

discoverer — see discoverer,‎ inventor

Anagrams

• Friden, Friend, friend, frined, redfin, refin'd, refind

Danish

Etymology 1

From finde (“to find”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fenər/, [ˈfenɐ]

Noun

finder c (singular definite finderen, plural indefinite findere)

1. finder

Declension

Declension of finder

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	finder	finderen	findere	finderne
genitive	finders	finderens	finderes	findernes

Etymology 2

See finde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fendər/, [ˈfenˀɐ]

Verb

finder

1. present of finde