Definitions for Piers

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Piers pier

Spelling: [peer]

IPA: /pɪər/

Piers is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Piers (eiprs).

Definitions for Piers

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 Piers

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

Examples for Piers

The walls, vaults, and piers in other parts of the arcades are Turkish.

It was still possible from the piers to identify the teams and the men aboard them.

Brooks replied, according to Sitham: “Been hacking into my phone again have you, piers?”

It is expected, of course, that the latter will be willing to be tried by their piers.

“About six corporations control 90 per cent of what Americans see,” Martin fulminated earlier this week on piers Morgan.

Here are some of the simple ways I helped, which could have easily helped piers Morgan.

piers Morgan was, at the time, editing the rival tabloid, the Daily Mirror.

For the tug belonged to a row of piers about a mile to the southward.

The North River piers with their rich life had been like a show room.

On December 18, Kerri and her brother, Mike, told piers Morgan on CNN about their grievances with their stepmother.