Definitions for seer

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seer se·er

Spelling: [see-er for 1; seer for 2–4]

IPA: /ˈsi ər for 1; sɪər for 2–4/

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

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in seer (eers).

Definitions for seer

noun

1. a person who sees; observer.
2. a person who prophesies future events; prophet:
3. a person endowed with profound moral and spiritual insight or knowledge; a wise person or sage who possesses intuitive powers.
4. a person who is reputed to have special powers of divination, as a crystal gazer or palmist.
5. ser.
6. a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).

Origin of seer

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at see¹, -er¹

Examples for seer

It is the clear soul of the boy, the poet, and the seer which is most surely aware of it.

The vision seen in the crystal does not exist objectively, but only in the mind of the seer.

How dove I know where the 'seer lives at this hour o' the night?

The seer has at last heard and interpreted the voice in the wilderness.

Then Arexion the seer sacrificed, and at the first essay the victims were favourable.

The name "seer" indicates the nature of this kind of prophecy.

Perhaps, had that seer of the future been a friend, I should have been secretly saddened.

Bob Dylan makes the theory of relativity worth caring about at all: he is a seer.

Then the Warlock becomes as weak as a child, “for all his strength had passed into the seer.”

The rates for parching are a pice a seer or an eighth part of the grain.