saver

See also: savér and savêr

English

Etymology

From save +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvəɹ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Homophone: savour
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

saver (plural savers)

1. One who saves.

   a saver of souls

   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

2. One who keeps savings more than usual.

   He’s a saver and she’s a spender; you’d think the marriage would be doomed, but he keeps them from going into bankruptcy and she makes sure they have a lot of fun.

3. A ticket or coupon that offers a discount.
   • 2017, Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy, and Broke:

     Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with savour (savor), or saviour (savior).

Derived terms

• face-saver
• labor-saver
• labour-saver
• lifesaver
• package saver
• pizza saver
• rail saver
• screensaver
• screen saver
• string saver
• time-saver

 

Translations

one who saves

• Bulgarian: спестител (spestitel)
• Maori: kaiwhakaputu
• Swedish: sparare (sv) c

Anagrams

• AVREs, Raves, avers, raves, sarve, vares, veras

Middle English

Noun

saver

1. Alternative form of saveour

Norman

Etymology

Inherited from Old French savoir, saveir, from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapĕre (“taste, know”).

Verb

saver

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) to know
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], pages 535-536:

     De la St. Michel à Noué un pllante ne sait pas chu que nou li fait.

     From Michaelmas to Christmas a plant does not know what you do to it.

Old Frisian

Ēnes bērnes sāver.

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *saifr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːfer/
• (Late Old Frisian) IPA^(key): /ˈsaːwer/

Noun

sāver m

1. spittle, saliva

Alternative forms

• sēver

Further reading

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

Romansch

Verb

saver

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) Alternative form of savair (“to know (how to do something)”)

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Latin sapere (“taste, know”). Compare Italian sapere.

Verb

saver

1. (transitive) to know (how to)
2. (transitive) to be able to; can