- contraction of ever.
- a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French (buccaneer; mutineer; pioneer) and productive in the formation of English nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly associated with the referent of the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer); now frequently pejorative (profiteer; racketeer).
- poetic, or archaic a contraction of ever
- indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified
- to be concerned with something specified
