caller

English

Etymology

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːlə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Standard Southern British, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːlə/
• (US)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lɚ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.lɚ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔləɾ/
• Homophone: collar (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)

Noun

caller (plural callers)

1. (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.

   Coordinate term: callee

   ―I’ve got someone on the line.
   ―Who’s the caller?

   • 2023 February 16, WCCO Staff, “Julissa Thaler sentenced to life in prison for murdering 6-year-old son, Eli Hart”, in cbsnews.com‎^[1]:

     Thaler was arrested in Orono last May when a caller reported that the car she was driving had a shattered rear window and a blown-out tire.

2. A visitor.

   a gentleman caller

3. (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
4. (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).

   If the called function throws an exception, the caller should be prepared to handle the error.

5. A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
6. (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.

Derived terms

• birdcaller
• caller ID
• caller identification
• chart caller
• cold caller
• cop-caller
• crank caller
• fox caller
• hog caller
• name-caller
• nuisance caller
• robocaller
• shot caller

Translations

the person who makes a telephone call

• Czech: volající (cs)
• Dutch: beller (nl)
• Finnish: soittaja (fi)
• French: téléphoneur (fr) m, appelant (fr) m
• German: Anrufer (de) m
• Hungarian: hívó (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: telefonker (ku) m or f

• Macedonian: повикувач m (povikuvač)
• Polish: dzwoniący
• Portuguese: chamador (pt) m
• Russian: звонящий (ru) (zvonjaščij)
• Spanish: llamador (es) m

Anagrams

• cellar, re-call, recall

French

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of English call +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.le/ ~ /kɑ.le/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

caller

1. (Canada, hunting) to attract game by imitating their call
2. (Canada, colloquial) to call

   Synonym: appeler

3. (poker) to call

Conjugation

Conjugation of caller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	callant /ka.lɑ̃/ or /kɑ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		callé /ka.le/ or /kɑ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	calle /kal/ or /kɑl/	calles /kal/ or /kɑl/	calle /kal/ or /kɑl/	callons /ka.lɔ̃/ or /kɑ.lɔ̃/	callez /ka.le/ or /kɑ.le/	callent /kal/ or /kɑl/
	imperfect	callais /ka.lɛ/ or /kɑ.lɛ/	callais /ka.lɛ/ or /kɑ.lɛ/	callait /ka.lɛ/ or /kɑ.lɛ/	callions /ka.ljɔ̃/ or /kɑ.ljɔ̃/	calliez /ka.lje/ or /kɑ.lje/	callaient /ka.lɛ/ or /kɑ.lɛ/
	past historic2	callai /ka.le/ or /kɑ.le/	callas /ka.la/ or /kɑ.la/	calla /ka.la/ or /kɑ.la/	callâmes /ka.lam/ or /kɑ.lam/	callâtes /ka.lat/ or /kɑ.lat/	callèrent /ka.lɛʁ/ or /kɑ.lɛʁ/
	future	callerai /kal.ʁe/ or /kɑl.ʁe/	calleras /kal.ʁa/ or /kɑl.ʁa/	callera /kal.ʁa/ or /kɑl.ʁa/	callerons /kal.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑl.ʁɔ̃/	callerez /kal.ʁe/ or /kɑl.ʁe/	calleront /kal.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	callerais /kal.ʁɛ/ or /kɑl.ʁɛ/	callerais /kal.ʁɛ/ or /kɑl.ʁɛ/	callerait /kal.ʁɛ/ or /kɑl.ʁɛ/	callerions /ka.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	calleriez /ka.lə.ʁje/ or /kɑ.lə.ʁje/	calleraient /kal.ʁɛ/ or /kɑl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	calle /kal/ or /kɑl/	calles /kal/ or /kɑl/	calle /kal/ or /kɑl/	callions /ka.ljɔ̃/ or /kɑ.ljɔ̃/	calliez /ka.lje/ or /kɑ.lje/	callent /kal/ or /kɑl/
	imperfect2	callasse /ka.las/ or /kɑ.las/	callasses /ka.las/ or /kɑ.las/	callât /ka.la/ or /kɑ.la/	callassions /ka.la.sjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.la.sjɔ̃/	callassiez /ka.la.sje/ or /kɑ.la.sje/	callassent /ka.las/ or /kɑ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	calle /kal/ or /kɑl/	—	callons /ka.lɔ̃/ or /kɑ.lɔ̃/	callez /ka.le/ or /kɑ.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• callage
• calleur
• calleure
• calleuse

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with English calver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlər/

Adjective

caller (comparative mair caller, superlative maist caller)

1. Fresh (of food, especially fish).

   Wha'll buy my caller herrin’, / New drawn frae the Forth? (Caroline Oliphaunt, ‘Caller Herrin'’)

2. Cool.