Definitions for Tanner

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Tanner tan·ner

Spelling: [tan-er]

IPA: /ˈtæn ər/

Tanner is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Tanner (aennrt).

Definitions for Tanner

noun

1. a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
2. British Slang. a sixpenny piece.
3. Henry Ossawa [os-uh-wuh] /ˈɒs ə wə/ (Show IPA), 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.
4. the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
5. yellowish brown; light brown.
6. tanbark.

Idioms

1. tan someone's hide, Informal. to beat someone soundly:

adjective

1. comparative of tan1 .
2. of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
3. used in or relating to tanning processes, materials, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun.
3. Informal. to thrash; spank.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tanned.

Origin of Tanner

before 1000; Middle English, Old English tannere. See tan¹, -er¹

Examples for Tanner

tanner was 52 when he collapsed, exercised regularly, and ate what he considered to be a healthy diet.

“I have seen this quoted back to me,” tanner said in an interview Monday.

And he gave the tanner a crack that made him roar for all his coughing.

Perry will play the role of defense attorney tanner Bolt, defending a man after his wife goes missing.

In the interim tanner walked to where Schofield stood, silent.

But the tanner had put on a high silk hat, so as to look a little taller.

Sudden cardiac death, which tanner suffered, strikes 350,000 people a year, killing nine of 10 victims.

tanner could not bridge the chasm between himself and his daughter.

“One of the family,” muttered tanner, his thoughts still busy.

At Slate, tanner Colby does the experiment with Woodward's biography of John Belushi.