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UK
/kɹˈaɪə/
]
[ US /ˈkɹaɪɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
- (formerly) an official who made public announcements
- a person who weeps
- a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
How To Use crier In A Sentence
- A call would be made by the public crier, instructing that Armenian males should present themselves at a government building.
- A "bellman" is the English equivalent of a town crier; his task was to move about the town, ringing a bell and making public announcements. The Bellman's Song (The Moon Shone Bright)
- After each point, the titled crier chants with a full voice in his old time tongue: "The but has so much, the refil has so much, gentlemen! Ramuntcho
- The first semi-final round will have the debonair Tony O'Neill, representing 3: AM Magazine, facing off against the fetching Maureen Tkacik (pronounced "Tay-sick," the announcer is told), representing The Crier or something. July 2007
- Mr Johnson secretly arranged with deputy crier David Mitchell to propose during one of his ear-splitting announcements.
- The rest of the village was in full attendance, for it was not every day in the week that the "tambour," the town-crier, had business enough to render his appearance, in his official capacity, necessary; as a mere townsman he was to be seen any hour of the day, as drunk as a lord, at the sign of "L'Ami Fidèle. In and out of Three Normady Inns
- A man, whom we shall call the crier, stands between the columns and the first judges 'stand. The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales
- I went to the bezestein, where I called a crier aside, and, showing him the necklace, told him I had a mind to sell it, and desired him to show it to the principal jewellers. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
- Mr Collier, who was one of the first five criers to perform, said: ‘This was my first real big championships.’
- Eleven criers from as far afield as Stafford, Colchester, Swindon and even Hastings came to compete for the Barnoldswick Bellman trophy.