seer
1a person who sees; observer.
a person who prophesies future events; prophet: Industry seers predicted higher profits.
a person endowed with profound moral and spiritual insight or knowledge; a wise person or sage who possesses intuitive powers.
a person who is reputed to have special powers of divination, as a crystal gazer or palmist.
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Other definitions for seer (2 of 2)
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Origin of seer
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How to use seer in a sentence
To romanticize them as seers — as when, for instance, we praise Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein for supposedly anticipating how Stein would age — is to misunderstand their role.
Bob Dylan makes the theory of relativity worth caring about at all: he is a seer.
I especially love the relationship between the girl narrator, Abilene Tucker, and Miss Sadie, the wise older seer of Manifest.
Emily Bazelon’s Book Bag: The Essential Bildungsromans | Emily Bazelon | February 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Amazing Kreskin, venerable showbiz seer, says he can discern who is telling the truth: Cain or his accusers.
Gilliatt, who was a kind of seer amid the secrets of nature, stood there musing, and sensible of confused emotions.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
Without exaggeration, he manages to suggest the intervening aerial medium between the seer and the thing seen.
Historic Fredericksburg | John T. GoolrickThe Kaiser has those terrible haunted eyes that have marked the seer's presentment of him from quite an early stage of the war.
Raemaekers' Cartoons | Louis RaemaekersA seer is one who has seeing eyes which clearly note and comprehend what most people pass a hundred times nor care to see.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. ParkmanA mysterious lucidity of mind results, which converts the student into the seer, and the poet into a prophet.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value | Arthur Glyn Leonard
British Dictionary definitions for seer (1 of 2)
/ (sɪə) /
a person who can supposedly see into the future; prophet
a person who professes supernatural powers
a person who sees
Derived forms of seer
- seeress, fem n
British Dictionary definitions for seer (2 of 2)
/ (sɪə) /
a variant spelling of ser
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