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Adjective caller has 2 senses

caller - providing coolness; "a cooling breeze"; "`caller' is a Scottish term as in `a caller breeze'"
Antonym: warm (indirect, via cool)
caller - fresh; "caller fish"
Antonym: stale (indirect, via fresh)

Noun caller has 7 senses

caller, company - a social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company"
--₁ is a kind of visitor, visitant

Derived form: verb call₆
caller - an investor who buys a call option
--₂ is a kind of investor
caller - the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
--₃ is a kind of bettor, better, wagerer, punter

Derived form: verb call₂₄
caller, caller-out - a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance; "you need a fiddler and a caller for country dancing"
--₄ is a kind of announcer

Derived form: verb call₂₁
caller - someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice; "the callers were mothers summoning their children home for dinner"
--₅ is a kind of announcer

Derived forms: verb call₁₆, verb call₄
caller - the person who convenes a meeting; "who is the caller of this meeting?"
--₆ is a kind of leader
--₆ has particulars: convener
Derived form: verb call₇
caller, caller-up, phoner, telephoner - the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
--₇ is a kind of speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser

Derived form: verb call₂