seer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. Alternative form of sihr. alt-of,alternative
  3. 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.

词形变化

seers plural see-er alternative,uncommon seeër alternative,rare seers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
seercraft seeress seerhood seerlike seership sightseer

词源

词源 1
From Middle English seere, equivalent to see + -er (“agent suffix”).
词源 2
See sihr.
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