Caller

Definitions: Caller

Caller

Adjective

1. Providing coolness; "a cooling breeze"; "`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'".

2. (Scottish) fresh; "caller fish".

Noun

1. A social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company".

2. An investor who buys a call option.

3. The bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands.

4. A person who announces the changes of steps during a dance; "you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing".

5. Someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice; "the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner".

6. The person who convenes a meeting; "who is the caller of this meeting?".

7. The person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "caller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Occupations

Post & Telecom

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Caller

Crosswords: Caller

I don't know you. Prank caller, prank caller! (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Go ahead caller, tell me why you hate Marco. (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed)

Just had another cursin' caller. Your little ass is gonna be in big trouble with that tape girl. (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; writing credit: Kim Henkel; Tobe Hooper)

So I did 213 showed up on your caller ID ("It's not right,but it's okay"; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

The Night Caller (1965)

Caller Herrin' (1947)

First Time Caller (2002)

The Caller (2000)

Gentleman Caller (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Caller (reference)

• Cold Caller (reference)

• Gentleman Caller (reference)

• Maigret and the Saturday Caller (reference)

• Midnight Caller (Harlequin Intrigue, No. 534) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Caller (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Night Caller (reference)

• Night Caller from Outer Space (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Caller Id (reference)

• Shot Caller [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• The Village Caller! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Expanded Caller ID (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The caller stepped to the middle of the floor and held up his hands.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

In addition to these services, caller identification, call forwarding, double line service, video conferencing, and online shopping are offered. (references)

Today the value-added telecommunication services in Lithuania include Internet access, voice mail, Short Message Service (SMS), caller ID and double line services, but the demand for services such as video-conferencing, WAP, ISDN, and e-commerce are emerging rapidly. (references)

Telecommunications operators offer Internet-related services for data, call-waiting, call-forwarding, call barring, voice mail, caller ID, short message service (SMS), unified messaging, conference calls, information numbers, pre-paid calling, pre-paid Internet cards and virtual private networking. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Most promising subsectors: Wireless local loop (CDMA) equipment, telephone switches, fiber-optic cables and copper telephone cables, satellite communications equipment, caller identification equipment, antennas, switches, and computer equipment. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

In more than half the calls received, the caller hung up or remained silent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "caller": caller ID ♦ caller identification ♦ signal caller. Additional references.

Beginning with "caller": caller-out, caller-up.

Ending with "caller": play-caller.

Afrikaan

besoeker (visitor). (various references)

Albanian

vizitor (comer, sightseer, visitant, visitor). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زيارة قصيرة (flying visit), ‏زائر (guest), ‏طازج (fresh, hot, new, wet), ‏المتصل بالتلفون. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гост (guest, visitant, visitor), прохладен (fresh), пресен (fresh, good, new, new-laid, spick and span, sweet, taintless, warm, young), посетител (guest, visitant, visitor). (various references)

Chinese 

访问者 (caller-out, caller-up). (various references)

Czech

telefonující, návštìvník (comer, guest, stranger, visitor). (various references)

Danish

vækningsmand (knocker-up), medarbejder der vækker personale i tjenestsberedskab (knocker-up), kaldeprogram, den opkaldende (calling party, calling subscriber), A (ampere, calling party, calling subscriber). (various references)

Dutch

bezoeker (visitor). (various references)

Esperanto

vizitanto (visitor). (various references)

Farsi 

ملاقات کننده , صدازننده , دیدنی کننده , دعوت کننده . (various references)

Finnish

soittava tilaaja (calling party, calling subscriber), soittava osapuoli (calling party, calling subscriber), soittaja (bandsman, calling party, calling subscriber, musician, player), kutsuva ohjelma (calling program, invoking program). (various references)

French

visiteur, demandeur (calling party, calling subscriber). (various references)

German

besucher (patron, visitor, visitors), anrufer (callers, telephoner). (various references)

Greek 

καλών 2)συνδρομητής (calling party, calling subscriber), καλών (summoner), πρόγραμμα κλήσης, υπεύθυνος εγερτηρίου (knocker-up), επισκέπτησ (guest, visitor), αυτόσ που καλεί, αφυπνιστής (knocker-up). (various references)

Hawaiian

vizitor (visitor). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבקר (guest, visitor), קורא (reader). (various references)

Hungarian

látogató (attendant, attendee, guest, visitant, visiting, visitor). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang memanggil. (various references)

Italian

chiamante, visitatore (final examiner, inspector, spot checker, visitant, visitor), utente chiamante (calling party, calling subscriber), programma chiamante (calling program, invoking program), incaricato della sveglia (knocker-up), agente incaricato della sveglia del personale (knocker-up), addetto alla sveglia (knocker-up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

訪問客 (visitor), 来訪者 (client, visitor), 来客 (visitor), 客人 (company, guest, visitor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゃくじ�" (company, guest, visitor), ほうも�"きゃく (visitor), らいきゃく (visitor), らいほうしゃ (client, visitor), らいかく (visitor). (various references)

Korean 

손님 (guest). (various references)

Manx

ylleyder (exclaimer, shouter), keayrtagh (circulating, occasional, periodic, touristic, tripper, visitor), eameyder (shouter). (various references)

Pig Latin

allercay.(various references)

Portuguese

visitante (stranger, visitant, visiting, visitor), visita (arrival, call, guest, survey, visit, visitant, visitation, visitor, visits), subscritor que chama (calling party, calling subscriber), programa de chamada, fresco (bonny, buxom, chilled, chilly, cool, crisp, finicky, fresco, fresh, good, new, prissy, recent, sweet, term applied to wines containing adequate but not excess acidity), assinante (calling party, calling subscriber, customer, subscriber), aquele que chama. (various references)

Romanian

vizitator (guest, patron, visitor). (various references)

Russian 

посетитель (attendees, visitor). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

posetilac (guest, habitue, visitant, visitor), posetilački, gostinski, gost (guest, visitor). (various references)

Spanish

comunicante (connecting, corespondent, party), persona que llama, despertador (alarm clock, knocker-up), el que llama, hombre comunicante, hombre de visita, abonado que llama (calling party, calling subscriber), pedido (cash order, indent, inquired, invited, order, requisition, wish), vista (appearance, aspect, examination, exterior, eyesight, fondness, glance, hearing, look, perspective, seeing, show, sight, take, takeoff, to look, view, vision, visitor, vista), programa de llamada, que llama (calling party, calling subscriber), solicitante (applicant, calling party, calling subscriber, claimant, petitioner), visita (call, company, guest, inspection, is visiting, overhaul, search, stay, tour, treat, viewing, visit, visitor, you are visiting), visitante (client, customer, frequenter, non-member, visitant, visiting, visitor), visitor, llamador. (various references)

Swedish

uppringare (callers, dialer), besökande (visiting, visitor). (various references)

Turkish

ziyaretçi (visitant, visitor), telefon eden kimse, oyunu yöneten kimse, misafir (company, guest, lodger, sojourner, visitor). (various references)

Ukranian 

свіжий (breezy, brisk, clean, crisp, fresh, green, new, new-laid, original, racy, sweet), той, хто робить перекличку, гість (guest, visitant), відвідувач (comer, visitor), прохолодний (cool), провітрений (aerated). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người gọi, người đến thăm. (various references)

Welsh

geilwad. (various references)

salutor. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "caller": callers. (additional references)

Words ending with "caller": recaller. (additional references)

Words containing "caller": recallers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Caller" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allexr, cabler, calary, Calcero, Calea, Calearo, calee, calem, calen, caley, Callam, callar, Callart, callay, callee, callen, Callery, calles, Calli, callip, callit, callper, callum, Callyr, calor, Calper, Capler, Casler, Caullery, cayle, ceiler, celer, Celler, cellur, celuler, chaleur, challe, cillei, Ciller, cler, Colleer, coller, kaler, Kallir, shaller, valler. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cellar, recall.

-1 letter: carle, cella, clear, lacer.

-2 letters: acre, alec, call, care, carl, cell, earl, lace, leal, lear, race, rale, real.

-3 letters: ace, ale, all, arc, are, car, cel, ear, ell, era, lac, lar, lea, rec.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

+1 letter: callers, carrell, cellars, clearly, ocellar, recalls, scleral.

+2 letters: allergic, brucella, calliper, callower, canaller, carolled, caroller, carrells, caviller, cellared, cellarer, cellaret, cellular, clerical, collared, collaret, coverall, crevalle, micellar, millrace, nucellar, overcall, recalled, recaller, rectally, rocaille.

+3 letters: acellular, brucellae, brucellas, caballero, callipers, canallers, canceller, carefully, carollers, cavillers, cellarage, cellarers, cellarets, cellaring, centrally, cerebella, chlorella, cleanlier, clearable, clericals, collarets, collinear, colorable, coralline, corollate, corralled, coveralls, crevalles, curveball, electoral, marcelled, millraces, molecular, nucleolar, overcalls, parcelled, rachillae, recallers, recalling, rocailles, scalloper, screwball, scutellar, secularly, subcellar, varicella.

+4 letters: allergenic, allometric, allosteric, barcarolle, bellyacher, brilliance, brocatelle, caballeros, calciferol, callipered, cancellers, caracolled, carefuller, carelessly, carnallite, carpellary, carpellate, cavalierly, cellarages, cellarette, cerebellar, cerebrally, challenger, chancellor, cheliceral, chloralose, chlorellas, citronella, clerically, cloverleaf, collarbone, collarless, collateral, colorectal, columellar, coralbells, corallines, cordillera, coveralled, cranesbill, curveballs, declarable, electrical, erotically, escadrille, gracefully, heroically, illiteracy, interlocal, irenically, jackrolled, lackluster, lenticular, marcelling, metrically, overcalled, parcelling, peculiarly, precalculi, prelogical, reallocate, recallable, reclosable, recyclable, replicable, salesclerk, saltcellar, scallopers, sclerotial, screwballs, sepulchral, spectrally, specularly, sterically, subcellars, ultraclean, vallecular, varicellas, vertically, victualler, viscerally, vorticella.

+5 letters: acerbically, acropetally, aerobically, allegorical, ancestrally, ancillaries, articulable, bacterially, ballcarrier, barcarolles, bellyachers, bimolecular, blacklister, blackmailer, brilliances, brocatelles, calciferols, calendrical, callipering, capillaries, carefullest, carillonned, carnallites, caterpillar, cauliflower, cellarettes, cellularity, centrically, challengers, chancellery, chancellors, chancellory, chanterelle, chloralosed, chloraloses, citronellal, citronellas, clapperclaw, clericalism, clericalist, cloverleafs, collaborate, collarbones, collaterals, cordilleran, cordilleras, corollaries, corporeally, cranesbills, crenellated, crestfallen, crystalline, crystallise, crystallite, crystallize, curveballed, electorally, empirically, eristically, erratically, escadrilles, generically, gracefuller, gracelessly, heretically, intervallic, kilocalorie, lacklusters, lamellicorn, larcenously, lucratively, lyricalness, mercurially, molecularly, nonallergic, noncellular, nonclerical, numerically, oneirically, overcalling, peacefuller, placeholder, polynuclear, prebiblical, precalculus, preclinical, precolonial, racquetball, reallocated, reallocates, recalculate, rechallenge, reclaimable, recyclables, relocatable, reluctantly, replaceable, rheological, salesclerks, saltcellars, sarcolemmal, serological, spherically, subcellular, thermically, unicellular, vectorially, veridically, viceregally, victuallers, vorticellae, vorticellas.

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