goer

Definition

One who, or that which, goes.

Etymology

From Middle English goere, equivalent to go + -er. Compare German Geher (“goer, walker”).

Example Sentences

• "Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times; Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them now But goers backward."
• "1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149, Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables."
• "[…] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […]; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]"