English Dictionary

bearer

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɛəɹə/

名詞

インド 古風

One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. / Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession. / One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.

日本語の意味

荷担者、担い手。また、運び手とも訳され、物や負担、役割を支える者・ものを指す。 / 葬儀において、棺や遺体を運ぶ役割を担う人。 / 小切手、債券、その他の支払いを約束する文書の所持者。

The bearer of the ancient scroll entered the hall with a solemn expression.

古い巻物の担い手は厳かな表情で大広間に入った。

意味（1）

One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries.

And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,

意味（2）

Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession.

Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.

意味（3）

One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment.

I promise to pay the bearer on demand.

意味（4）

A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc.

意味（5）

A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter.

Within an hour of our finally deciding to start five litters were brought up to the door of the cave, each accompanied by four regular bearers and two spare hands, also a band of about fifty armed Amahagger, who were to form the escort and carry the baggage.

意味（6）

(India, dated) A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.

The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.

意味（7）

(India) A waiter in a hotel or restaurant.

意味（8）

A tree or plant yielding fruit.

a good bearer

意味（9）

(dated) Someone who delivers a letter or message on behalf of another (especially as referred to in the letter or message).

[…] Wilt thou know Th’ effect of what I wrote? […] An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, […] That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death,

意味（10）

(printing) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page.

意味（11）

(printing) A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

bearers （ plural ）