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Seer

//sɪə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Alternative form of sihr. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    Initialism of seasonal energy efficiency ratio. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    an authoritative person who divines the future wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    an observer who perceives visually wordnet
  2. 7
    a person with unusual powers of foresight wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).

Etymology 2

See sihr.

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