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blazer

Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪzə/

The English word “blazer” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A very bright or hot day.
  2. A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp.
  3. A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
  4. A comet.
  5. A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals.
  6. Any suit-style jacket for women.
  7. An older member of a sports club, often with conservative or old-fashioned views.
  8. A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer.
  9. Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle.
  10. Someone or something that draws attention.
  11. One who blazes (“smokes marijuana”); a stoner.
  12. One who blazes (“announces or proclaims something publicly”); an announcer, a herald, a proclaimer.
  13. Synonym of blazoner (“one who blazons (“describes”) coats of arms; a herald”).

Etymology

From blaze (“to reflect or send forth a bright light; (figurative) to be conspicuous; etc.”, verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Blaze is derived from blaze (“fire”, noun), from Middle English blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch; a bright light”), from Old English blæse, blase (“a flame, blaze; a firebrand, torch”) (whence Old English blæsere, blasere (“one who burns, burner,…

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