'Mover' definitions:
Definition of 'mover'
(from WordNet)
noun
Workman employed by a moving company; "the movers were very careful with the grand piano"
noun
(parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion [syn: proposer, mover]
noun
Someone who moves
noun
A company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another [syn: mover, public mover, moving company, removal firm, removal company]
Definition of 'Mover'
From: GCIDE
- Mover \Mov"er\, n.
- 1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. [1913 Webster]
- These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mover'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abettor,
- actor,
- actuator,
- agent,
- agitator,
- Ahasuerus,
- ancestors,
- Ancient Mariner,
- animator,
- apprentice,
- architect,
- Argonaut,
- artificer,
- artist,
- author,
- begetter,
- beginner,
- bird of passage,
- builder,
- cajoler,
- catalyst,
- causer,
- coax,
- coaxer,
- conceiver,
- constructor,
- craftsman,
- creator,
- designer,
- deviser,
- discoverer,
- doer,
- drifter,
- effector,
- encourager,
- energizer,
- engenderer,
- engineer,
- executant,
- executor,
- executrix,
- fabricator,
- father,
- firer,
- floater,
- Flying Dutchman,
- fomenter,
- founder,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- gadfly,
- galvanizer,
- generator,
- go-about,
- Goliard,
- grower,
- impeller,
- inaugurator,
- inciter,
- inducer,
- industrialist,
- initiator,
- inspirer,
- instigator,
- institutor,
- introducer,
- inventor,
- itinerant,
- journeyman,
- maker,
- manufacturer,
- master,
- master craftsman,
- medium,
- mother,
- moving spirit,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- operant,
- operative,
- operator,
- organizer,
- originator,
- Ossian,
- parent,
- past master,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- performer,
- peripatetic,
- perpetrator,
- persuader,
- planner,
- pleader,
- practitioner,
- precursor,
- prime mover,
- primum mobile,
- producer,
- prompter,
- raiser,
- rambler,
- realizer,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- rover,
- runabout,
- shaper,
- sire,
- smith,
- spark,
- spark plug,
- sparker,
- stimulator,
- straggler,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- subject,
- tempter,
- troubadour,
- Ulysses,
- visitant,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wheedler,
- worker,
- wright