Definitions for tier

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tier tier

Spelling: [teer]

IPA: /tɪər/

Tier 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 34 anagrams from letters in tier (eirt).

Definitions for tier

noun

1. one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
2. one of a number of galleries, as in a theater.
3. a layer; level; stratum:
4. Australian. a mountain range.
5. a person or thing that ties.
6. Nautical. a short rope or band for securing a furled sail.
7. New England. a child's apron or pinafore.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in tiers.

verb (used without object)

1. to rise in tiers.

Origin of tier

1560-70; earlier also tire, tyre, teare Middle French, Old French tire, tiere order, row, rank Germanic; compare Old English, Old Saxon tīr, Old High German zēri glory, adornment

Examples for tier

If he can temper those tendencies, the debate could propel him to the first tier of the race.

"It's steep to-night," he mutters, as tier on tier of cloud drops under.

So how might the members of our Republican second tier make their precious moments on camera sparkle?

When we got into dock we had lost our turn for loading, and they hauled us off to a tier where we remained for a month.

YouTube is already part of their mainstream culture, rather than being this second tier of media.

The porters arranged them symmetrically, tier by tier, on the vehicles.

Megan: What happens to people who graduate from second or third tier schools?

Minority students at a second or third tier school are dealing with much bigger gaps.

Then they ran along the second tier of roofs beneath the open heavens.

Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of tier.