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CEFRB1

/ˈtænɚ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who turns animal hides into leather.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.

Examples

  • Mine is the white car parked next to the tan pickup truck.

  • The tanner treated the animal skins to make durable leather.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.

  2. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

  3. A former British coin worth six old pence.

More examples

In context

  • Tom is a tanner.

  • Near-synonym: snow crab

  • Eighty-one-year-old [Martha] Stewart says that a spray tan before her debut Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover boosted her confidence. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.

Synonyms

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After soaking animal skins in chemicals, the blank carefully prepared the leather for use.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan + -er.