Words Like ER
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3 Alternative Words Similar to er
10 definitions of er
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A Middle English form of ere.
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An English suffix, originally and properly attached to verbs to form nouns of the agent, as in baker, creeper, delver, driver, reader, sower, writer, etc.
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A suffix of Latin origin, denoting usually a person, and often an agent, but not, like -er, usually associated with a verb.
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A suffix of adjectives, forming the comparative degree, as in colder, deeper, greater, bigger, etc., and being cognate with the Latin comparative suffix -or, -ior, neuter -us, -ius, represented in English in major, minor, minus, prior, superior, inferior, etc.
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A suffix of verbs, giving them a frequentative and sometimes a diminutive sense, as patter from pat, swagger from swag, flutter from float, sputter from spout, etc.
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A suffix of certain nouns, mostly technical terms of the law (from Old Law French), as attainder, misnomer, trover, user, non-user, waiver, etc. In endeavor, endeavour, the orig. -er is disguised in the spelling.
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In chem., the symbol for erbium.
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In heraldry, an abbreviation of ermine.
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A simplified spelling of err.
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Said when hesitating in speech.