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Added 3 October 2026

maintainer

/meɪnˈteɪnə/ noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about maintainer at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Someone who keeps or upholds something; a steward.
He become the maintainer of the software project.
A person who does maintenance work.
A device used to keep teeth in a given position.

Origin

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er. By surface analysis, maintain + -er.

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