Definitions for Pier

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Pier pier

Spelling: [peer]

IPA: /pɪər/

Pier is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Pier (eipr).

Definitions for Pier

noun

1. a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
2. (in a bridge or the like) a support for the ends of adjacent spans.
3. a square pillar.
4. a portion of wall between doors, windows, etc.
5. a pillar or post on which a gate or door is hung.
6. a support of masonry, steel, or the like for sustaining vertical pressure.
7. a long passageway or corridor that extends from a central area of a building, especially one at an airport that leads to boarding gates.

Origin of Pier

before 1150; Middle English pere, earlier (perhaps late Old English) per Anglo-Latin pera, pēra pier of a bridge

Examples for Pier

The pier is all but on the bowsprit, and you think you are there—roll, roar, wash!

But to do that, you would probably not put a roller coaster on the end of a pier.

Nearby, at the Beard Street Warehouses, pier Glass was nearly washed away.

Seeing a pier jutting out, he heedlessly followed it to the very end.

Hope came down on the pier to Malbone, who was looking at the boats.

Now we were moving in close to the pier, with a whole fleet of tugs around us.

Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.

On the south side of the pier a man had just tied up a motor-boat.

The river smelled faintly briny as waves brushed up against the pier.

Many lawyers think that pier Luigi Foschi, the CEO of Costa Cruiseline, should also be investigated.