mover

Etymology

From move +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːvə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: mov‧er
• Rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)

Noun

mover (plural movers)

1. Someone who or something that moves.
2. A dancer.
3. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.

   Synonym: (chiefly Australia) removalist

   I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.

4. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
5. A product that sells well.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 389:

     "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.

6. (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.

Anagrams

• vomer

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈbe(ɾ)/
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)
• Syllabification: mo‧ver

Verb

mover

1. to move

Etymology

Inherited from Latin movēre.

Verb

mover

1. to move

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movín, past participle movido)
mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movim or movi, past participle movido, reintegrationist norm)

1. to move

Further reading

• “mover”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “mover” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Verb

mover

1. (transitive) to move

mover se

1. (reflexive) to move

Verb

mover

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of movoir

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *movĕre, from Latin movēre (“to move”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔveɾ/

Verb

mover

1. to move

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “movēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 463

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mover, from Latin movēre. Compare Spanish mover, French mouvoir.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movi, past participle movido)

1. to move (change position)

   Synonyms: deslocar, mexer, movimentar

2. to induce; to persuade

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:induzir

3. (law, with contra following the object) to sue (file legal action)

   Synonym: processar

   João moveu uma ação contra Pedro. ― John sued Peter.

4. (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)

   Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mover, from Latin movēre. Compare English move.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /moˈbeɾ/ [moˈβ̞eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧ver

Verb

mover (first-person singular present muevo, first-person singular preterite moví, past participle movido)

1. (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
2. (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
3. (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
4. (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
5. (transitive) to move to, to cause to
6. (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
7. (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
8. (reflexive) to shift

   La tierra se movió.

   The ground shifted.

9. (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
10. (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)

    La bebé no se movió para nada toda la noche.

    The baby didn't stir at all the entire night.

    ¡Deja de moverte!

    Stop fidgeting!

11. (reflexive) to get a move on (idiom)
12. (reflexive) to be moved (by a performance, etc.)

Further reading

• “mover”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10