Palmer Definition

pämər
noun
A pilgrim carrying a palm leaf to signify the making of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

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pronoun

An English surname.

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Other Word Forms of Palmer

Noun

Singular:
palmer
Plural:
palmers

Origin of Palmer

  • From Middle English palmer (“a pilgrim from the Holy Land"), from Old French.

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  • From Middle English, from palm (“the type of tree") +"Ž -er.

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  • From the transitive verb to palm.

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Palmer Sentence Examples

  • Palmer was originally settled in 1716, but received a notable accession of population from a large Scotch-Irish colony which went from Ulster to Boston in 17 i 8.

  • At the election of November 1868 Palmer was again returned for Richmond, and Gladstone offered him the office of lord chancellor or the office of a lord justice with a peerage; both offers were declined by Palmer, and he assumed a position of independent opposition to the measure relative to the Irish Church.

  • Among his college friends were Dean Stanley and Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of Selborne.

  • Franklin reached London in December 1724, and found employment first at Palmer's, a famous printing house in Bartholomew Close, and afterwards at Watts's Printing House.

  • At Palmer's he had set up a second edition of Wollaston's Religion of Nature Delineated.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAL

Words Ending With

RERMER

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Words Starting With P and Ending With R

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With R