Meaning

4 senses

  1. Someone who whispers.

    one who speaks in a whisper

  2. Someone who tells secrets; a gossip.

  3. Someone who is skilled in taming or training a certain kind of animal, using gentle vocal commands and body language as opposed to physical contact. See horse whisperer.

  4. (broadly, figuratively)Someone who has an uncanny ability to control or manipulate a certain thing or person; an expert or guru in a particular field or subject

    dog whisperer

    hormone whisperer

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (

From whisper + -er. The extended senses were popularized by the film The Horse Whisperer (1998).

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Forms

plural: whisperers
Singularwhisperer
Pluralwhisperers

regular

Word family

3 related words
Relatedwhisper
Deriveddragon whispererhorse whisperer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whiskerwhiskeyB2whisperB1whistleB1whitwhiteA1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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