logger

noun

log·​ger ˈlȯ-gər How to pronounce logger (audio)
ˈlä-
: one engaged in logging

Examples of logger in a Sentence

the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down
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Train Dreams stars Joel Edgerton as a logger who is working to develop the railroad across the United States. Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2025 At the center is Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger working for the railroad companies that are steadily transforming the country. Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025 In his latest project, Train Dreams, a Netflix release that is streaming now, Edgerton plays Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker whose life unfolds across six decades in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025 Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for logger

Word History

First Known Use

1732, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of logger was in 1732

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“Logger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/logger. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

Kids Definition

logger

noun
log·​ger ˈlȯg-ər How to pronounce logger (audio)
ˈläg-
: one whose work is logging

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