caller
/ˈkɔ.lɚ/ noun B1- The person who makes a telephone call. · ―I’ve got someone on the line. ―Who’s the caller?
- A visitor. · a gentleman caller
- The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- A function that calls another (the callee). · If the called function throws an exception, the caller should be prepared to handle the error.
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
- The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
Plural callers
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His wife, too, was popular with those who had made her acquaintance; though, after the English fashion, the callers upon a stranger who settled in the county without introductions were few and far between.
During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.
Diana was sitting on the sofa, reading a book which she dropped when the callers entered.
One afternoon a few days later Marilla came slowly in from the front yard where she had been talking to a caller--a man whom Anne knew by sight as Sadler from Carmody.
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