finder

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UK /ˈfaɪndə/ US /ˈfaɪndəɹ/

noun 3name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

electrical, online, professional

My brother used an online finder to locate his lost phone in the parking lot.

VERB + FINDER

need

We need a finder to locate the lost car keys before we leave for the airport.

FINDER + NOUN

people, treasure, trove

The treasure finder discovered ancient coins buried beneath the old oak tree.

PREP.

through

I found the lost keys through a finder app on my phone.

ADV.

perhaps

Perhaps the finder of the lost wallet decided to return it to the police station.

Definitions

noun

One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.

A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.

Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.

A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.

Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.

name

A surname from German.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — optical device that helps a user to find the target of inter

viewfinder

noun — someone who is the first to observe something

discoverer
spotter

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

Wiktionary

The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.

Wiktionary

Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.

Wiktionary

I quietly take out my camera, so as not to be noticed by my photographic subject, and peek through the finder.

Tatoeba · #328240

Sami is a professional people finder.

Tatoeba · #6718940

I need a stud finder to install the towel rack.

Tatoeba · #8597300

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, finder is marked as UK, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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