Aimers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals who direct an effort towards a specific goal or target
2. Persons who focus their skills and resources on reaching particular objectives
3. Those engaged in the act of setting and pursuing defined intentions or aspirations

Etymology: The word "aimers" is simply the plural of "aimer", which is formed from "aim" plus the suffix "-er". That suffix has a long pedigree: it passed through Old French "-ier" from Latin "-arius", a Latin ending used to form nouns denoting a person connected with a thing or activity. In Old English the same ending appeared as "-ere", and it became the common English way of naming someone who does something, so a "writer" is one who writes and an "aimer" is one who aims. The plural form follows the regular English pattern of adding "-s" to a noun, which is all that is needed to refer to several people who aim. The sense of "aimers" here, people who concentrate their skills and resources on particular goals, grows naturally from the basic verb "aim" as a noun for a person doing the aiming.

Synonyms: shooters, markers, targeters, designators