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Definition of Ranter
1. Noun. Someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner.
Generic synonyms: Speaker, Talker, Utterer, Verbaliser, Verbalizer
Derivative terms: Rant, Rave
Definition of Ranter
1. n. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
Definition of Ranter
1. Noun. A member of an alleged sect in the time of the English Commonwealth (1649–1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established church. ¹
2. Noun. One who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ranter
1. one that rants [n -S] - See also: rants
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranter
Literary usage of Ranter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"Ranter». " I HAVE a collection of several Ranters books in a thick quarto," ...
It was John Ilinks, a Ranter, with whom George Fox kept sheep for some time, ..."
2. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
""Gag the wretched ranter; we'll teach him to talk better of his betters," was
... Plymouth laws against the Quakers read: "No Quaker, ranter, or any such ..."
3. History of the Brocklesby Hounds, 1700-1901 by George E. Collins (1902)
"Redrose in 1790 included the great Ranter. Dover, who was originally registered
Dexter, was by Driver out of Whimsey, Driver being by Charger out of Airy, ..."
4. ... Characters and Passages from Note-books by Samuel Butler (1908)
"A Ranter IS a Fanatic Hector, that has found out by a very strange Way of new
Light, how to transform all the Devils into Angeh of Light; for he believes ..."
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