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Doer vs Doner - What's the difference?

doer | doner |

As nouns the difference between doer and doner

is that doer is someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent while doner is goner; someone who is done for.

As an adjective doner is

comparative of done.

doer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 295:
  • Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
  • * 2008 , Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian , 25 Mar 2008:
  • In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * be-er

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns ----

    doner

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (humorous, dialect) (done)
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  • See also

    * done and doner

    Noun

    (head)
  • Goner; someone who is done for.
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  • Etymology 2

    By ellipsis.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • doner kebab
  • Anagrams

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