partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtnə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtnɚ/
ipa: [ˈpɑɹʔnɚ]
ipa: /ˈpɐːtnə/
Forms: form: partners
Etymology: From Middle English partener, partiner, alteration (due to Middle English part) of Middle English parcener, from Old French parçonier, parçonneour (“joint heir”) from parçon (“partition”), from Latin partītiōnem, singular accusative of partītiō (“portion”). The word may also represent Old French part tenour (“part holder”). Compare also Middle English partifere (“partner”), partifelewe (“partner”). Doublet of parcener.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of people or things that belong together.
examples: text: business partner
text: dance partner
text: doubles partner
text: speaking partner
text: sex partner
glosses: Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
examples: text: He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
ref: 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
glosses: Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
A member of a business or law partnership.
examples: text: New guidance on how to prosecute abusive partners for controlling and coercive behaviour has highlighted the phenomenon of love-bombing, a tactic used by suspects to confuse victims and gain more control.
ref: 2023 April 23, Amelia Gentleman, “CPS includes ‘love-bombing’ in guidance on abusive partners prosecution”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic or sexual bond.
examples: text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
glosses: Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
Someone with whom one plays on the same side in a game, such as card games or doubles tennis.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
glosses: A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.
Derived terms: accountability partner
antipartner
bedpartner
business partner
civil partner
conversational partner
copartner
cyberpartner
de facto partner
demand partner
domestic partner
expartner
ex-partner
heteropartner
hitting partner
implementing partner
interpartner
intimate partner violence
life partner
multi-partner
nominal partner
nonpartner
partner dance
partnerdom
partnerial
partner in crime
partner IVF
partnerless
partnerly
partnership
partner up
quasi partner
romantic partner
sex partner
sexual partner
silent partner
sleeping partner
strike partner
subpartner
superpartner
trading partner
trophy partner