blazer
A thing which blazes or shines brightlyA thing which blazes or shines brightly.: A very bright or hot day.
» I would like to get a blouse to go with this blazer.
Я би хотів взяти блузу, яка пасує до цього блейзеру.
Meaning
13 sensesA thing which blazes or shines brightly.
(informal)A very bright or hot day.
(Canada, US)A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.
(Northern England)A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
(figuratively)A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
(figuratively)Any suit-style jacket for women.
(UK, figuratively, slang)An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.
(figuratively)A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.
a blazer of paths
a blazer of pathways
(figuratively, slang)Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.
(US, figuratively)Someone or something that draws attention.
(US, figuratively, slang)One who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.
A thing which blazes or shines brightly.
(obsolete)A comet.
(archaic, obsolete)One who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.
- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school
Examples
7 sentencesI would like to get a blouse to go with this blazer.
Я би хотів взяти блузу, яка пасує до цього блейзеру.
He hung his blazer on a hanger because he didn't want it to get wrinkled.
She wore a classic black blazer to the meeting.
He hung his blazer on a hanger because it was really hot.
I like these blazer buttons.
Translations
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Origin
From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Blaze is derived from blaze (“fire”, noun), from Middle English blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light”), from Old English blæse, blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (whence Old English blæsere, blasere (“one who burns, burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”), from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“a torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blaze, burn; to be bright, shine; bright flame, fire; shiny; white”).
From Middle English blasour (“one who over-praises”), from blasen (“to blow; to sound a blast”) + -our (suffix forming agent nouns). Blasen is possibly derived from Old English *blǣsan (“to blow”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan (“to blow”), from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”). By surface analysis, blaze (“to blow (a trumpet); to announce publicly, publish”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
From Middle English blaseyr (“one who blazons coats of arms”), probably from blasen (“to inscribe with armorial bearings, emblazon; to blazon a coat of arms”) + -er, -ir (suffix forming agent nouns). Blasen is probably derived from blason, blasoun (“shield usually with a coat of arms; coat of arms”), from Old French blason (“shield; coat of arms”) (modern French blason); further etymology uncertain, probably from Frankish *blãsjan (“to light up, brighten, illuminate”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (see further at etymology 1). By surface analysis, blaze (“(heraldry) to blazon”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
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Forms
plural: blazersSynonyms
5 synonyms- lightweight single-breasted jacket; often striped in the colors of a club or school:sport jacketsport coatsports jacketsports coat