tranter

[tran-ter]

noun

British Dialect.

1. a peddler, hawker, or carrier using a horse and cart.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tranter¹

1350–1400; alteration of late Middle English traventer < Medieval Latin travetārius, perhaps for Latin trānsvect ( us ), past participle of trānsvehere to carry across + -ārius -ary

Example Sentences

Sonny Tranter, 23, started making maps in Minecraft before moving over to Fortnite, where his creations caught on and found an audience.

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Bad Wolf’s CEO Jane Tranter, who has shepherded the show from a bag of often contradictory ideas into its fourth season, always called “Industry” “the little show that could.”

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The initial awards begin with the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, hosted by Justin Tranter at the nearby Peacock Theater, streaming live at 12:30 p.m. at live.grammys.com and on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel.

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“Harris was getting Joe Biden margins across all of Pennsylvania, but what Donald Trump was able to do was he was outpacing his margins from 2020 by anywhere from 4% to 6% especially in key counties like Bucks,” Scott Tranter, director of data science for Decision Desk HQ, told NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo.

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According to Scott Tranter, director of data science at Decision Desk HQ, forecasting is far from an exact science, even if modelers are normally trying their best to provide sober, statistically informed analysis.

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