sere

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English seer(e), from Old English sēar.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈsɪə/
• (US) IPA: /siːr/
• Homophone: seer (UK)
• Homophone: sear (US)

Adjective

sere (comparative serer, superlative serest)

1. Without moisture.

   1867 CE: Henry Lonsdale, The worthies of Cumberland

   • [T]he recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.

   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     But with its sound it shook the sails / That were so thin and sere.

Translations

without moisture

• Finnish: kuivunut (fi)
• German: trocken (de), verwelkt (de), verdorrt (de), vertrocknet (de)

• Romanian: veșted (ro)

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.

Synonyms

• seral community

Etymology 2

French serre

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. (obsolete) claw; talon

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

See also

• sear

Anagrams

• Erse, Rees, seer

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Czech

Verb

sere

1. 3rd person singular indicative of srát

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈseː.re], /ˈsere/, X-SAMPA: /"se.re/
• Hyphenation: sé‧re

Noun

sere

1. Plural form of sera

Anagrams

• erse, rese

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Kurdish

Adjective

sere

1. old

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Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb serō (“[I] sow, plant; [I] beget”).

Verb

sere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of serō
   1. "sow thou, plant thou"
   2. (of persons) "beget thou, bring thou forth, produce thou"

Etymology 2

Form of the verb serō (“[I] join or bind together; [I] interweave, entwine”).

Verb

sere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of serō
   1. "bind thou together; interweave thou, entwine thou"

Etymology 3

Form of sērus.

Adjective

sēre

1. vocative masculine singular of sērus