different between rapper vs singer

English

Alternative forms

• rappuh

Etymology

rap +? -er

Pronunciation

• Homophones: wrapper
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
   1. The knocker of a door.
   2. (historical, mining) A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
   3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
2. (music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
5. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
6. (colloquial, dated) A bold lie; a whopper.
7. (colloquial, dated) A loud oath.

Translations

Anagrams

• RepRap

Danish

Etymology 1

Noun

rapper c (singular definite rapperen, plural indefinite rappere)

1. rapper (practitioner of rap music)

Declension

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Etymology 2

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/
• Hyphenation: rap?per
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Adjective

rapper

1. Comparative form of rap

Etymology 2

From English rapper. Surface analysis rappen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/ or as in English
• Hyphenation: rap?per

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers, diminutive rappertje n)

1. rapper (performer of rap music)

French

Etymology 1

English rap +? -er

Alternative forms

• raper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pe/

Verb

rapper

1. (music) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rapper.

Alternative forms

• rappeur (more common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pœ?/

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers)

1. (music) rapper

Portuguese

Noun

rapper m, f (plural rappers)

1. rapper (hip hop performer)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English synger, syngere, singere, singare, equivalent to sing +? -er. Cognate with Scots singar, Saterland Frisian Sjunger, West Frisian sjonger, German Low German Singer. Compare also Old English sangere, Dutch zanger, German Low German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s???/
• (General American) enPR: s?ng??r IPA^(key): /?s???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

singer (plural singers)

1. A person who sings, often professionally.
2. (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure.

Synonyms

• (person who sings): cantor, chanter

Hyponyms

• (person who sings):
  • (female): cantrix (archaic), chanteuse, chantress, singeress (obsolete, rare), songstress
  • (male): songster

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shing?)

Translations

Etymology 2

From singe +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nd???(?)/
• Rhymes: -?nd??(?)

Noun

singer (plural singers)

1. A person who, or device which, singes.
2. A machine for singeing cloth.

Translations

Anagrams

• Greins, Negris, nigres, re-nigs, re-sign, reigns, renigs, resign, resing, ringes, signer

French

Etymology

In at least the ape sense, from singe (“monkey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.?e/

Verb

singer

1. to ape
2. to sprinkle with flour

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written singe- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Further reading

• “singer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• signer