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finder¹

  • /ˈfaɪndə/ UK
  • /ˈfaɪndəɹ/ US

Rhymes with -aɪndə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English fyndere, from fynden (“to find”) + -ere (suffix forming agent nouns). By surface analysis, find + -er.

noun finders

  1. One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer. Finders keepers, losers weepers.
  2. A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest. Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
  3. UK, historical A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living. Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.

Finder²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Finder.

proper noun Finders

  1. A surname from German.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: discoverer, spotter, viewfinder, view finder, search, investigator, locator, researcher, reward, designator, judge, scientist, crawler, browser, pager, path

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"finder." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/finder. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

finder. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/finder

Chicago

"finder." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/finder.

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@misc{finder_2026,
  title = {finder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/finder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}