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blazer.

A thing which blazes or shines brightly.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbleɪzə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈbleɪzəɹ/General-American
  1. A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A very bright or hot day.

    informal
  2. A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.

    Canada · US
  3. A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.

    Northern-England
  4. A thing which blazes or shines brightly. A comet.

    obsolete
  5. 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
  6. 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. Any suit-style jacket for women.

    figuratively
  7. 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. An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.

    UK · figuratively · slang
  8. A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.

    figuratively
    a blazer of paths
    a blazer of pathways
  9. Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.

    figuratively · slang
  10. Someone or something that draws attention.

    US · figuratively
  11. One who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.

    US · figuratively · slang
Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/ˈbleɪzə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈbleɪzəɹ/General-American
  1. One who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.

    archaic · obsolete
Where this word comes from

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).

noun/ˈbleɪzə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈbleɪzəɹ/General-American
  1. Synonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

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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