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Definition of keener in English: keenernoun ˈkiːnə(r) 1A person who wails or sings in grief for a dead person. a team of five keeners was hired to cry on the way to escort their father to the crematorium Example sentencesExamples - In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
- In all kinds of societies throughout human history professional mourners, wailers or keeners, have been paid to produce hireling tears.
- They spent a total of 1,000 yuan on hiring the keeners, all poor men and women who were mobilized to form a band on their own.
- At times there are echoes of the raw Gaelic keeners who sang the songs of the dispossessed.
2British Canadian dialect, informal A person who is extremely eager, zealous, or enthusiastic. for the real keeners, tickets can be purchased in advance Example sentencesExamples - For you keeners out there, "highly active" is classified as 12,500 steps per day.
- My limits of being a nerdy keener were always tested with assigned reading lists in university.
- Being the resourceful individuals that we are, we soon moved up into empty front-row-center seats that some keeners paid $100 a piece for.
- This is the kind of show that has you blathering like a wide-eyed teenage keener for weeks afterwards.
- If you leave the voting to those keeners who were in line on Tuesday morning, then you might as well get used to not having a vote at all.
- Their eighth full-length album is still in the works, but keeners can get an early listen as they will test driving some new tracks at this gig.
- For adult astronomy keeners or for kids with some scientific enthusiasm, Skywatcher's Inn is delightful.
- In standard teen movies, they would be the overachieving geeks, the keeners that spent most of high school either buried in homework or watching geeky shows.
- I am going to confess to being a little bit of a keener, I did mine yesterday and did not go drinking.
- I was met at the airport by a couple of students: Alejandro, a keener in horn-rimmed nerd glasses, and Monica, a smart but silent type.
Definition of keener in US English: keenernounˈkēnər 1A person who wails or sings in grief for a dead person. Example sentencesExamples - In all kinds of societies throughout human history professional mourners, wailers or keeners, have been paid to produce hireling tears.
- In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
- They spent a total of 1,000 yuan on hiring the keeners, all poor men and women who were mobilized to form a band on their own.
- At times there are echoes of the raw Gaelic keeners who sang the songs of the dispossessed.
2British Canadian dialect, informal A person who is extremely eager, zealous, or enthusiastic. keeners who spent most of high school buried in homework Example sentencesExamples - For you keeners out there, "highly active" is classified as 12,500 steps per day.
- I was met at the airport by a couple of students: Alejandro, a keener in horn-rimmed nerd glasses, and Monica, a smart but silent type.
- Their eighth full-length album is still in the works, but keeners can get an early listen as they will test driving some new tracks at this gig.
- Being the resourceful individuals that we are, we soon moved up into empty front-row-center seats that some keeners paid $100 a piece for.
- I am going to confess to being a little bit of a keener, I did mine yesterday and did not go drinking.
- This is the kind of show that has you blathering like a wide-eyed teenage keener for weeks afterwards.
- If you leave the voting to those keeners who were in line on Tuesday morning, then you might as well get used to not having a vote at all.
- For adult astronomy keeners or for kids with some scientific enthusiasm, Skywatcher's Inn is delightful.
- My limits of being a nerdy keener were always tested with assigned reading lists in university.
- In standard teen movies, they would be the overachieving geeks, the keeners that spent most of high school either buried in homework or watching geeky shows.
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