Charger Meaning
/ˈtʃɑːdʒə/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA device that charges or recharges.
nounOne who charges.
Sentence Examples
I've memorized the model number of the charger.
I lost the charger to my phone.
CEFR Practice Quiz
I forgot my phone ____ at home, so now my battery is dying and I cannot plug it in.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I forgot to bring my phone ____, so my battery will die very soon.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service."
— 2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13:
"With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another volley brought down a half dozen more."
— 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 135:
"That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger."
— 2018, Robert J. Stoller, Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred:
"Before the stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition, another horseman dashed the bushes asides, and leaped his charger into the pathway in front of his companion."
— 1826, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea— […], →OCLC, page 43:
"My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed."
— 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
I forgot my phone ____ at home, so now my battery is dying and I cannot plug it in.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I forgot to bring my phone ____, so my battery will die very soon.