reformer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disputant who advocates reform
    meliorist; reformist; social reformer; crusader.
  2. noun an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel
    • a catalytic reformer

WordNet


Re*form"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
  2. (Eccl.Hist.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

Webster 1913