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  webster

  noun

  a weaver.
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  Webster

  noun

  Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.

webster

¹ American  

[web-ster] / ˈwɛb stər /

noun

Archaic.

1. a weaver.

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Webster ² American  

[web-ster] / ˈwɛb stər /

noun

1. Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.

2. John, c1580–1625?, English dramatist.

3. Margaret, 1905–72, British stage director, producer, and actress, born in the U.S.

4. Noah, 1758–1843, U.S. lexicographer and essayist.

5. William H(edgcock) born 1924, U.S. judge and government official: director of the FBI 1978–87 and of the CIA 1987–91.

6. a city in central Massachusetts.

7. Informal. Also Webster's. a dictionary of the English language.

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Webster ¹ British  

/ ˈwɛbstə /

noun

1. Daniel. 1782–1852, US politician and orator

2. John. ?1580–?1625, English dramatist, noted for his revenge tragedies The White Devil (?1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (?1613)

3. Noah. 1758–1843, US lexicographer, famous for his American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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webster ² British  

/ ˈwɛbstə /

noun

1. an archaic word for weaver

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Etymology

Origin of webster

before 1100; Middle English; Old English webbestre. See web, -ster

Example Sentences

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Spinster is the only one of all her various womanly titles that survives; webster, shepster, litster, brewster, and baxter are obsolete.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

The termination -str, as in webster, songster, and baxter, was originally a feminine affix.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Men carried the flax wheel on their backs, and their mechanical skill enabled them to construct looms. daniel webster on his farm.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

Illustrations: daniel webster on his farm. birth-place of daniel webster.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various

All specific modifications, all determinate movements, all molecular arrangements, all multiplications of bioplastic force, are the work of the one vital webster, or principle of life, within--that which shapes all, directs all, determines all.

From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright

She ended the decade on Norman Lear’s “One Day at a Time,” starring as Francine Webster opposite Bonnie Franklin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

After bowling the hosts out for 284 and needing 57 to win, Mominul Haque cut Beau Webster to the boundary for the winning runs to seal the nation's first Test victory in Australia.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

That's where the likes of Adrian Webster come in.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

For Webster, it's about "allowing our mother – the planet Earth – a voice again".

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald