Dictionary Definition
raiser
Noun
1 a bridge partner who increases the partner's
bid
2 someone concerned with the science or art or
business of cultivating the soil [syn: agriculturist, cultivator, grower]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- A person or thing that raises.
- She is a raiser of gerbils.
Quotations
- 1855–1857 — Charles
Dickens, Little
Dorrit, Book II, ch 31
- Be guided only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities.
Extensive Definition
Konrad Raiser (b. 25 january
1938) is a
former General Secretary of the
World Council of Churches (WCC). Born in Magdeburg,
Germany in 1938, Konrad Raiser studied theology and started working
with the World Council of Churches, first in the department for
Faith and Order. He later became the Deputy General Secretary.
Leaving the WCC in 1983, Raiser began to teach theology at Bochum
University in Germany until he returned again to Geneva in
1992, this time elected as General Secretary of the World Council
of Churches. He served the WCC in this capacity until 2004.
raiser in German: Konrad Raiser
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bauer,
agriculturalist,
agriculturist,
agrologist, agronomist, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, coffee-planter,
collective farm worker, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, crofter, cropper, cultivator, designer, deviser, dirt farmer, discoverer, dry farmer,
effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farm laborer,
farmer, farmhand, father, founder, generator, gentleman farmer,
granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman,
mother, muzhik, organizer, originator, past master,
peasant, peasant holder,
picker, planner, planter, plowboy, plowman, precursor, prime mover,
producer, rancher, ranchman, realizer, reaper, rustic, shaper, sharecropper, sire, smith, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer,
tiller, tree farmer,
truck farmer, wright,
yeoman