"hopscotcher" meaning in English

See hopscotcher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: hopscotchers [plural]
Etymology: From hopscotch + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|hopscotch|er|id2=occupation}} hopscotch + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} hopscotcher (plural hopscotchers)
  1. One who plays the game of hopscotch.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hopscotch",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "hopscotch + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hopscotch + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hopscotchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hopscotcher (plural hopscotchers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              204,
              216
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 September 6, Melissa Clark, “The Retailer Next Door”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Out came vanilla-scented pillar candles and shiny brass candleholders, bags of potpourri and cellophane-wrapped flip-flops, and enough unopened packages of rainbow chalk to keep an entire neighborhood of hopscotchers content.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who plays the game of hopscotch."
      ],
      "id": "en-hopscotcher-en-noun-8XdGVPLa",
      "links": [
        [
          "hopscotch",
          "hopscotch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hopscotcher"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hopscotch",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "hopscotch + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hopscotch + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hopscotchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hopscotcher (plural hopscotchers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              204,
              216
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2007 September 6, Melissa Clark, “The Retailer Next Door”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Out came vanilla-scented pillar candles and shiny brass candleholders, bags of potpourri and cellophane-wrapped flip-flops, and enough unopened packages of rainbow chalk to keep an entire neighborhood of hopscotchers content.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who plays the game of hopscotch."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hopscotch",
          "hopscotch"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hopscotcher"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hopscotcher meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (87ad358 and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.