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Definition of Schemer

1. Noun. A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action.

Definition of Schemer

1. n. One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

Definition of Schemer

1. Noun. (programming) A person who programs in Scheme. ¹

2. Noun. One who plots or schemes, who formulates plans. ¹

3. Noun. One who is given to scheming. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Schemer

1. one that schemes [n -S] - See also: schemes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schemer

Literary usage of Schemer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"LOOSE LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A Schemer. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WHETHER I was born a schemer, or nursed in to a schemer, or schooled into a schemer, ..."

2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... intriguing schemer, who was panic- stricken at the name of Napoleon, and guilty through his blunders at Krasnoe and Berezina of robbing the Russian army ..."

3. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"For the sake of argument, I have supposed that the mineral belonging to "Anti-Schemer" is a bituminous shale. Now, I happen to пате some retorts made ..."

4. The Life of Horace Greeley: Editor of "The New-York Tribune", from His Birth by James Parton (1872)
"... is born— Interview with Horace Greeley—The Doctor thinks he is 'no common boy*—The schemer baffled—Daily papers twenty-five years ago—Dr. Sheppard comes ..."

5. Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in by John Clark Ridpath (1910)
"Louvois, indeed, was a man after Louis's own heart—a schemer by nature, great in abilities, a bitter enemy of the Huguenots. Between him and hia READING THE ..."

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