单词 | e'er |
释义 | e'er[ air ] / ɛər / adverb Chiefly Literary.contraction of ever. WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH e'erair, e'er , ere, err, heirDefinition for e'er (2 of 3)EER abbreviationenergy efficiency ratio. Definition for e'er (3 of 3)-eer a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French (buccaneer; mutineer; pioneer) and productive in the formation of English nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly associated with the referent of the base word (auctioneer; engineer; mountaineer; pamphleteer); now frequently pejorative (profiteer; racketeer).Compare -ary, -er2, -ier2. Origin of -eer<French, Middle French -ier (Old French <Latin -ārius-ary as suffix of personal nouns); in some nouns replacing earlier suffixes (see engineer, charioteer) or the French suffix -aire-aire (see musketeer, volunteer) Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for e'er (1 of 2)e'er / (ɛə) / adverbpoetic, or archaic a contraction of ever British Dictionary definitions for e'er (2 of 2)-eer -iersuffix(forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specifiedauctioneer; engineer; profiteer; mutineer (forming verbs) to be concerned with something specifiedelectioneer Word Origin for -eerfrom Old French -ier, from Latin -arius -ary Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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