-ier (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

  1. variant of -er1, usually in nouns designating trades: collier; clothier; furrier; glazier.
  1. a noun suffix occurring mainly in loanwords from French, often simply a spelling variant of -eer, with which it is etymologically identical (bombardier; brigadier; financier; grenadier); it is also found on an older and semantically more diverse group of loanwords that have stress on the initial syllable (barrier; courier; courtier; terrier). Recent loanwords from French may maintain the modern French pronunciation with loss of the final r sound (croupier; dossier; hotelier).
suffix forming nouns
  1. a variant of -eer brigadier
-ier (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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