setter – English noun declension

English noun forms of setter

Noun: setter
Singularsetter
Pluralsetters

Sample Sentences

  • Any query to the setter is required to be addressed as such (e.g., "Setter: Please check"); otherwise it will be treated as a query to the author.
  • The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
  • The setter of this crossword has been known to throw us all for a loop occasionally.
  • In this sample, twenty of the twenty-seven fire setters received a primary or secondary diagnosis of conduct disorder, compared with only eleven of twenty-seven nonsetters. [2000, Rita Wicks-Nelson, Allen C. Israel, Behavior Disorders of Childhood, page 188:]
  • One of the most admired and best-known crossword setters in the English language, Graham was known for his idiosyncratic style and extended anagrams. [2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian:]
  • She has a spaniel and a red setter.
  • The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago. [1931, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:]
  • It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked [Julien] Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in [Roger] Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses. [2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:]
  • O, 'tis our setter. I know his voice [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *sodéyeti
6. Proto-Germanic *satjaną
7. Proto-West Germanic *sattjan
8. Old English settan
9. Middle English setten
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
11. Proto-Italic *-āzios
12. Latin -āriusnom.
13. Latin -āriusbor.
14. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
15. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
16. Old English -ere
17. Middle English -ere
18. Middle English settere
19. English setter
20. From Middle English settere, equivalent to set + -er. Compare West Frisian setter, Dutch zetter, German Low German Setter, German Setzer.
21. The hunting dogs are so named because when they scent the game, they set (that is, strike a certain stance). See: Middle English Nouns 'settere', German Nouns 'Setzer'.

Verbs referencing "setter"

French Nouns setter, Italian Nouns setter, Romanian Nouns setter, Russian Nouns сеттер, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns settar, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns setjar, Finnish Nouns setteri.