Partner
nounA person who shares in an activity, business, or relationship with another on roughly equal terms.
How to spell partner
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce partner
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does partner mean?
- nounA person who shares in an activity, business, or relationship with another on roughly equal terms.
- verbTo join with another person or organisation as an associate in an activity.
Partner in a sentence
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noun
She signed the lease with her business partner last spring.
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verb
The charity hopes to partner with a local bank for the fundraiser.
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noun
Each partner in the firm receives a share of the annual profit.
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verb
The two studios agreed to partner on the new game.
Where does partner come from?
Language of origin: French
Partner came into English in the 1200s and 1300s from Anglo-Norman and Old French parcener (also parçonier), meaning a joint heir or someone who shares in something. That word traces back to the Latin partitionem, meaning 'a sharing' or 'a division', from partiri, 'to divide into parts'. The original English form was something like 'parcener', but speakers reshaped it under the obvious pull of the familiar word 'part', because a partner is exactly the person who takes a part or share. This folk-influenced respelling is why the modern word looks like 'part' plus an ending rather than preserving its Latin shape. The trap for writers is the tidy 'part-ner' division: it really is spelled with that clean 't' before the 'n', no hidden letters and no doubling.
How the word is built
- part (share, from Latin partitio: a sharing)
- -ner (agent/relational ending, altered from -ener)
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