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Definition of Speller

1. Noun. Someone who spells words.

Definition of Speller

1. n. One who spells.

Definition of Speller

1. Noun. A person who spells (words). ¹

2. Noun. (American English) A book for learning spellings. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Speller

1. one that spells words [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speller

Literary usage of Speller

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

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"Q. 3.75-4 one bad speller, six good spellers. Q. 4-4.25, one bad speller, ... Q. 16.8, one bad speller. nearly peculiar to bad spellers than very good ..."

2. Public School Education in North Carolina by Edgar Wallace Knight (1916)
"The list consisted of: Webster's speller; Wiley's North Carolina Reader; Parker's First and Second Readers; Davies's Arithmetics; Emerson's Arithmetic; ..."

3. Public School Education in North Carolina by Edgar Wallace Knight (1916)
"The list consisted of: Webster's speller; Wiley's North Carolina Reader; Parker's First and Second Readers; Davies's Arithmetics; Emerson's Arithmetic; ..."

4. The American Catalogue ... July 1, 1876-Dec. 31, 1910 by Lynds Eugene Jones, Richard Rogers Bowker, Augusta Isabella Appleton (1908)
"50000 word speller and letter writers' manual. 24 c. ; 50 c. G:'W. Ogilvie. ... Walker, Evans & С Linen nursery ABC and simple speller. ю c. McLoughlin. ..."

5. Public Education in the South by Edgar Wallace Knight (1922)
"... but in all sections of the country before the war, the following spellers were also widely used: Barry's speller, Burton's speller, Cobb's speller, ..."

6. The Publishers' and Stationers' Weekly Trade Circular by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia (1872)
"Osgood's Progressive speller, 22 с Ел. Parker А Watson's National Element. ... Exercises in Articulation, 20 с Lt. Town's New speller and Definer. ..."

7. Early Schools and School-books of New England by George Emery Littlefield, Club of Odd Volumes (1904)
"Who was the author and what was the character of the first speller used in the New England schools there is no record. We only know that among the books ..."

8. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE BLUE-BACK speller By MISS FANNIE ES HECK ['Select Poetry of North Carolina,' 1904, compiled by Rev. Hight C. Moore.] I'd been mighty busy plowin', ..."

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