Meaning

4 senses
  1. (historical)An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.

    денье́denʹjé

  2. A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.

    денье́denʹjé

  3. One who denies or forbids something.

  4. One who denies the existence of something.

    Holocaust denier

    global warming denier

    Leugner

    отрицательotricatelʹ, отрицательницаotricatelʹnica

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom and Mary are reality deniers.

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  2. She appears to be a reality denier.

    deSie scheint eine Realitätsverweigerin zu sein.

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  3. Climate deniers are a cancer upon this earth.

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  4. He's a climate change denier.

    ruОн отрицает изменение климата.

    deEr leugnet den Klimawandel.

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  5. Tom is a reality denier: he can see those stripes and he says they don't exist.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
coin:
person who denies the existence of something:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person who denies the existence of something:

Origin

Borrowed from French denier, from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denarius, dinar, diner

Borrowed from French denier, from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of denar, denarius, dinar, diner, dinero, and dinheiro.

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Forms

plural: deniers
Singulardenier
Pluraldeniers

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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