seer

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /siːɹ/, /siː.əɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -iə(ɹ)
• Homophones: sear, sihr

Etymology 1

see +‎ -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
2. Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.

Translations

someone who sees something; an eyewitness

• Georgian: მხედველი (ka) (mxedveli)
• Russian: очевидец (ru) (očevídec) m , свидетель (ru) (svidétel’) m 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: очевидац (sh) m

  Roman: očevidac (sh)

someone who foretells the future

• Czech: jasnovidec (cs), prorok (cs)
• Dutch: ziener
• Finnish: näkijä (fi), tietäjä (fi)
• French: voyant (fr)
• Georgian: წინასწარმეტყველი (ka) (cinascarmetqveli)
• German: Seher (de) m
• Hindi: (rishi) ऋषि (hi) (r̥ṣi) m
• Hungarian: látnok (hu)
• Irish: fáidh (ga) m
• Italian: veggente (it), chiaroveggente (it), indovino (it)

• Latin: fatidica (la) f
• Latvian: pareģis
• Lithuanian: pranašas, aiškiaregys
• Polish: jasnowidz
• Portuguese: vidente (pt)
• Russian: прорицатель (ru) (proricátel') m , провидец (ru) (provídec) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: taibhsear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: видовњак (sh), пророк (sh) m, пророчица (sh) f, видјелац (sh)

  Roman: vidovnjak (sh), pròrok (sh) m, pròročica (sh) f, vidjelac (sh)

• Slovak: jasnovidec, prorok, veštec
• Spanish: vidente (es), adivino (es)
• Volapük: (male or female) visionan (vo), (male) hivisionan (vo), (female) jivisionan (vo)

Etymology 2

See sihr.

Noun

seer (plural seers)

1. Alternative form of sihr.

Anagrams

• Erse
• Rees
• sere

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Danish

Etymology

From se (“to see”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /seːər/, [ˈseːˀɐ]

Noun

seer c (singular definite seeren, plural indefinite seere)

1. viewer (someone who watches television)
2. seer (someone who foretells the future)

Inflection

    Inflection of seer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	seer	seeren	seere	seerne
genitive	seers	seerens	seeres	seernes

Synonyms

• (viewer): fjernseer, kigger, kikker, tv-kigger, tv-kikker, tv-seer

External links

• Seer on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia