Seer
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
""But I must not forget to tell you that the lad was born on a Sunday, and had found a card with the four of clubs; therefore he was a seer, that is to say, he could see the supernatural people, but they could not see him.""
- 2 Alternative form of sihr. alt-of, alternative
- 3 Initialism of seasonal energy efficiency ratio. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 an authoritative person who divines the future wordnet
- 5 One who sees something; an eyewitness.
"As a seer of beautiful visions, or, shall we say, of visions of the beautiful, he is never weary of celebrating the poet and his vocation."
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- 6 an observer who perceives visually wordnet
- 7 a person with unusual powers of foresight wordnet
Example
More examples""Nor in my madness kept my purpose low, / but vowed, if e'er should happier chance invite, / and bring me home a conqueror, even so / my comrade's death with vengeance to requite. / My words aroused his wrath; thence evil's earliest blight. / Thenceforth Ulysses sought with slanderous tongue / to daunt me, scattering in the people's ear / dark hints, and looked for partners of his wrong; / nor rested, till with Calchas' aid, the seer...""
Etymology
From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
See sihr.
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