Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that sees: an inveterate seer of sights.
- n. A clairvoyant.
- n. A prophet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sees.
- n. A prophet; a person who foresees or foretells future events.
- n. Specifically, one supposed to be gifted with second sight.
- n. = Syn.2. Soothsayer, etc. See prophet.
- An obsolete spelling of sear.
- See sere.
- n. An East Indian weight, of varying value in different places, but officially determined in the Presidency of Bengal to be equal to 80 tolas, or about 2½ pounds troy.
- n. In Bombay, a dry measure equal to 1.41 liters; in Ceylon, a liquid measure equal to 1.14 liters.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
- n. Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
- n. Alternative form of sihr.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Prov. Eng. Sore; painful.
- n. One who sees.
- n. A person who foresees events; a prophet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an authoritative person who divines the future
- n. an observer who perceives visually
- n. a person with unusual powers of foresight
Etymologies
- See sihr. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the age of Samuel required more solid qualifications in the prophets, and hence the term seer had already given way to that of expounder or master of eloquence and wisdom.”
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
“Then the fresh faces and smart uniforms disappeared, and now the nearest approach to "militarism" which Paris offers to the casual sight-seer is the occasional drilling of a handful of piou-pious on the muddy reaches of the Place des Invalides.”
“While the prophet "speaks" in the Spirit, the apocalyptic seer is in the Spirit in his whole person.”
“He was going to be the one true "seer" -- poke fun at the soft underbelly of politics, keeping us smiling and "in the know" -- the "shysters" wouldn't stand a chance with Jon Stewart on guard!”
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“But in the end it wasn’t because they were gone, but because she had been a seer from the start.”
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“The king's interpretation of said vision leads in turn to very successful military campaign, which in turn leads to the young prince being dubbed a seer and prophet.”
“One day I talked her out of going to see him and hang out at the dorms instead. "ok", she said, and went to call the seer to cancel the appointment…”
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“It's a thing called seer training, which is survival, escape, resistance, and then evasion.”
“So this was really drawn from something called a seer (ph) database, and this is a database that looks at outcomes in selective populations around the country, regions of the country.”
“Phil's fans travel from near and far for a glimpse of the so-called seer of seers, fans like South Carolinians Richard and Joanne Hudson, who came face-to-face with Phil while driving through Pennsylvania.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘seer’.
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...yearling, wild celery, Wain, Themis, talon, slither, sedge, sea eagle, scurf, rile, prevaricate, poplar tree and 732 more...
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Ideas
brainchild, inspiration, muse, genius, eureka, discovery, intellectual prop..., intangible asset, goodwill, patented, savant, brainiac and 76 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Reckon's Word List
Turned On
tintinnabulation, talisman, soliloquy, serendipity, quintessential, rhapsody, plethora, myrrh, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, loquacious and 102 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL S
saccharine, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, saga, sagacity, salacious, salient, saline, salivate, salutary, salvo, sanctimonious and 156 more...
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Opethead's list
All Words
deplore, immense, ominouse, dilapidated, dunghill, admonitary, procuring, legilimens, mediocre, implicitly, beseechingly, imperiously and 170 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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I Am the...
Adjectives that describe what I may or may not be or whom to some I might appear to be...
charlatan, pimp, degenerate, miscreant, painter, creator, trouper, do-gooder, chum, chump, genius, gentlewoman and 41 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo Etymology: Hindi ser; perhaps akin to Persian seer. a unit of weight Aug 31, 2009