Christer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Christer (plural Christers)
- (sometimes derogatory) A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
- 1917, L. V. Hodgkin, A Book of Quaker Saints[1]:
- The village people called his father 'Righteous Christer,' which shows that he too must have been 'stiff as a tree' in following what he knew to be right.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (person who publicly displays his religion): fundamentalist, fanatic, witness
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Christer
- a male given name derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern
Swedish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of Christian through a medieval form Christiern. First recorded in Sweden in 1484.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Christer c (genitive Christers)
- a male given name
References[edit]
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 60 621 males with the given name Christer living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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