crier
Americannoun
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criers
plural
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a person who cries.
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a court or town official who makes public announcements.
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a hawker.
noun
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a person or animal that cries
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(formerly) an official who made public announcements, esp in a town or court
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a person who shouts advertisements about the goods he is selling
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Etymology
Origin of crier
1250–1300; Middle English criere < Old French. See cry, -er 1
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The ignoble battle ends when a neighbor, Mrs. Prothero, shouts that her house is on fire, “announcing ruin like a town crier in Pompeii.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“I’m a weird crier with movies. Like I won’t cry after I won the Super Bowl. I didn't cry when my kids were born,” he said.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
Early SigAlerts had rather a small-town feel, like a town crier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024
Margaret Boyce is soft-spoken, a private person, and certainly not - in her words - a "crier".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
The holding cell was cold, and I had to share it with this kid who kept crying and another who was picking on the crier.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“We had a couple of criers today,” says Sonia-Wallace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
Enlisting high cheekboned town criers isn’t the worst idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fox News: It’s been said you and June Allyson were the town criers of MGM.
From Fox News ● Mar. 20, 2021
When Ayub returned to the village, he informed two town criers — saingom — that the authorities had handed down additional rules.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
For a person like Lelia, who grew up with hollerers and criers, mine is the worst response.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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