palmer

English - Turkish

Definition of palmer in English Turkish dictionary

(isim) hristiyan hacı

{i} hristiyan hacı

Related Terms

palmer index

(Çevre) palmer endeksi

English - English

Definition of palmer in English English dictionary

One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice

A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification

The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. -- T. Staveley.

{n} a cheat, pilgrim, deer's crown, ferula

American golfer who was the first to win four Masters championships (1958, 1960, 1962, and 1964). American baseball player. A right-handed pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles (1965-1984), he won 20 or more games during eight separate seasons and won the Cy Young Award three times (1973, 1975, and 1976). Haley Alexander Palmer Palmer Arnold Daniel Palmer Alexander Mitchell Palmer Samuel Peabody Elizabeth Palmer Robertson Oscar Palmer Thompson Edward Palmer

An English surname, of Old French origin, for someone who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and brought back a palm branch as proof

United States golfer (born in 1929)

A palmerworm

Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle

{i} Christian pilgrim from the Middle Ages; religious pilgrim; cheater, one who conceals cards (in a card game)

A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places

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Related Terms

Palmer Archipelago

An island group between the southern tip of South America and the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The islands are claimed by Great Britain

Palmer Raids

raids carried out during the 1920s in which suspected socialists were rounded up and some were deported (ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer)

Arnold Palmer

A beverage made with iced tea and lemonade in equal parts

A Mitchell Palmer

born May 4, 1872, Moosehead, Pa., U.S. died May 11, 1936, Washington, D.C. U.S. politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1909 to 1915 and helped secure the Democratic Party presidential nomination for Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Appointed U.S. attorney general (1919-21), Palmer used the espionage and sedition acts (1917, 1918) to attack political radicals, dissidents, and aliens in the "Red Scare" period following World War I. The government-led roundup of suspected communists became known as the "Palmer raids." In 1920 he ran unsuccessfully for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party

Alexander Mitchell Palmer

born May 4, 1872, Moosehead, Pa., U.S. died May 11, 1936, Washington, D.C. U.S. politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1909 to 1915 and helped secure the Democratic Party presidential nomination for Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Appointed U.S. attorney general (1919-21), Palmer used the espionage and sedition acts (1917, 1918) to attack political radicals, dissidents, and aliens in the "Red Scare" period following World War I. The government-led roundup of suspected communists became known as the "Palmer raids." In 1920 he ran unsuccessfully for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party

Alexander Palmer Haley

born Aug. 11, 1921, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S. died Feb. 10, 1992, Seattle, Wash. U.S. writer. He was raised in North Carolina, served in the Coast Guard (1939-59), and later became a journalist. An interview with Malcolm X led to the best-selling Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965; film, 1992). His greatest success, however, was Roots (1976, special Pulitzer Prize), a history of seven generations of his ancestors beginning with their enslavement. Adapted for television, it became one of the most popular American television shows ever and spurred great interest in genealogy, though Haley later admitted that the saga was partly fictional

Arnold Daniel Palmer

born Sept. 10, 1929, Latrobe, Pa., U.S. U.S. golfer. The son of a greenskeeper, Palmer turned professional in 1954 after winning the U.S. Amateur championship. He was the first player to win the Masters Tournament four times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964); his other major titles include the U.S. Open (1960) and the British Open (1961-62). From 1954 through 1975 he won 61 tournaments. He won the PGA Senior Open in 1980 and 1981. He was the first golfer to earn $1,000,000 in tournament prize money. His exciting play and amiable personality won him wide popularity among fans, who became known as "Arnie's Army." Palmer was also the first athlete to parlay success on the playing field into lucrative off-the-field contracts, and thus he paved the way for athletes who followed to earn substantial sums from endorsement contracts

Arnold Palmer

born Sept. 10, 1929, Latrobe, Pa., U.S. U.S. golfer. The son of a greenskeeper, Palmer turned professional in 1954 after winning the U.S. Amateur championship. He was the first player to win the Masters Tournament four times (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964); his other major titles include the U.S. Open (1960) and the British Open (1961-62). From 1954 through 1975 he won 61 tournaments. He won the PGA Senior Open in 1980 and 1981. He was the first golfer to earn $1,000,000 in tournament prize money. His exciting play and amiable personality won him wide popularity among fans, who became known as "Arnie's Army." Palmer was also the first athlete to parlay success on the playing field into lucrative off-the-field contracts, and thus he paved the way for athletes who followed to earn substantial sums from endorsement contracts

Edward Palmer Thompson

born Feb. 3, 1924 died Aug. 28, 1993, Upper Wick, Worcester, Eng. British historian. He served in Italy in World War II and taught at the universities of Leeds (1948-65) and Warwick (1965-71). He left the Communist Party in 1956 when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising but remained a Marxist and socialist all his life. His best-known work is The Making of the English Working Class (1963), an acclaimed study of the period 1780-1832. Among his other books is Whigs and Hunters (1975). From the late 1970s he devoted much of his time to the antinuclear movement

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

born May 16, 1804, Billerica, Mass., U.S. died Jan. 3, 1894, Jamaica Plain, Mass. U.S. educator and leader in the kindergarten movement in America. She served as secretary to William Ellery Channing (1825-34) and worked with Bronson Alcott in his Temple School. She opened a Boston bookshop in 1839, which became a centre for Transcendentalist activities. She published works by Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne and also published and wrote articles for The Dial. Inspired by the work of Friedrich Froebel, she opened the first English-language kindergarten in the U.S. in 1860 and thereafter devoted herself to organizing public and private kindergartens. Her sisters married Horace Mann and Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oscar Palmer Robertson

born Nov. 24, 1938, Charlotte, Tenn., U.S. U.S. basketball player. He was the first African American to play for the University of Cincinnati. Drafted by the Cincinnati Royals of the NBA in 1960, he averaged double figures in points (30.8), rebounds (12.5), and assists (11.4) per game in 1961-62, a feat unmatched by any other player. He played for the Milwaukee Bucks (1970-74) and helped the team win a championship in 1970. He ended his career with 26,710 points, 7,804 rebounds, and 9,887 assists

Samuel Palmer

born Jan. 27, 1805, London, Eng. died May 24, 1881, Redhill, Surrey British painter and etcher. He began exhibiting conventional landscapes at the Royal Academy by

Samuel Palmer

After converting to a personal form of High Anglicanism and discovering medieval art, he developed a visionary style, displaying a mystical but precise depiction of nature and an overflowing religious intensity, united by a vivid re-creation of the pastoral conventions. In these works he was encouraged and influenced by William Blake. As his religious fervour faded after 1830, the precarious balance between realism and vision was lost

Hyphenation

palm·er

Turkish pronunciation

pälmır

Pronunciation

/ˈpälmər/ /ˈpɑːlmɜr/

Etymology

[ 'pä-m&r, 'päl-, ] (noun.) 13th century. From Middle English palm (“the type of tree”) + -er.