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Definition: Purser |
PurserNoun1. An officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Note: Purser \Purs"er\, noun. [See Purse, and compare to Bursar.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Coordinates activities of workers aboard ship concerned with shipboard business functions and social activities for passengers: Prepares shipping articles and signs on crew. Maintains payroll records and pays off crews at completion of voyage. Submits passenger and crew sailing lists to governmental agencies as required by regulations. Assists passengers in preparing declarations for customs, arranging for inspections of horticultural items being brought into country, and inspection of documents by immigration authorities. Prepares ship's entrance and clearance papers for foreign ports, and ship's cargo manifests when discharging cargo. Supervises stowage, care, and removal of hold baggage. Arranges for travel and scenic tours at ports of call. Provides banking services and safekeeping of valuables for passengers. Supervises preparing, editing, printing, and distribution of ship's daily newspaper. Plans and conducts games, tournaments, and parties for passengers' enjoyment. May conduct religious services. May provide first aid for passengers and crew. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Treasurer | Noun: treasurer; bursar, bursary; purser, purse bearer; cash keeper, banker; depositary; questor, receiver, steward, trustee, accountant, Accountant General, almoner, liquidator, paymaster, cashier, teller; cambist; money changer; (merchant). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Purser |
| English words defined with "purser": Pursership. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "purser": NIP CHEESE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "purser": Bursar. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ferris Hartman in The purser by John T. Day. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Purser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Purser" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "purser" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Purser | Last name | 2,000 | 6,204 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
purser sales truck | 11 |
purser | 9 |
purser truck | 3 |
lat purser | 2 |
purser ro | 2 |
adam purser | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "purser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | arkëtar i anijes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ضابط المحاسبة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | домакин-касиер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 财物官. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úèetní (accountant, bookkeeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | purser (steward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hofmeester. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | provizaĵestro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کیسه دوز, تحویلدار (Cashier), صندوقدار (Bursar, Cashier, Treasurer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commissaire du bord, commissaire de bord, commissaire, chef de cabinée bord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zahlmeister (cashier, paymaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λογιστήσ πλοίου, ταμίασ πλοίου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | élelmezési tiszt (commissariat officer, welfare officer), pénztáros (booking clerk, cashier, ticket clerk, treasurer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | commissario di bordo (steward), commissario (chief, chief of police, commissary, commissioner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 事務長 (manager), バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purge, purse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | パーサー , じむちょう (manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사무장 (Provost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coontyseyr lhuingey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urserpay comissário de bordo (flight attendant, paymaster, purse-bearer, steward). (various references) казначей (bursar, exchequer, paymaster, pursebearer, purse-bearer, treasurer). (various references) blagajnik na brodu. (various references) contador (accountant, counter, meter, metre, recorder), comisario (commissar, commissary, deputy). (various references) överhovmästare (pursebearer). (various references) muhasebeci (accountant, bookkeeper, bursar, Chamberlain, controller, pay clerk). (various references) начальник господарської служби. (various references) người phụ trách t i vụ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "purser": pursers. (additional references) | |
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"Purser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: burser, Euroserv, Oursler, perser, Peuser, Porzner, pulser, punser, Purcaru, pureer, purler, Purner, pursa, pursay, pursee, pursor, Purver, Puryear, puser. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purser" (pronounced per"ser) |
| 3 | -er" s er | cursor, Mercer, precursor, reverser, verser. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: purer, purrs, purse, ruers, sprue, super, surer. | |
-2 letters: errs, pure, purr, purs, reps, ruer, rues, ruse, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user. | |
-3 letters: err, ers, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, res, rue, ser, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-4 letters: er, es, pe, re, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: parures, peruser, pourers, pruners, purgers, pursers, pursier, pursuer, repours, sprucer, spurner, spurred, spurrer, spurrey, uprears, upriser, usurper. | |
+2 letters: cruppers, groupers, pasturer, perdures, perjures, perturbs, perusers, posturer, precures, pressrun, pressure, presumer, procures, purpures, pursuers, raptures, regroups, repulser, repursue, resprout, resprung, ruptures, splurger, sprucier, spurners, spurrers, spurreys, spurrier, spurries, superber, supercar, superior, superpro, supremer, surprise, surprize, troupers, upraiser, uprisers, uprivers, usurpers. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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