Er (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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interjection
  1. (used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.)
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. erbium.
abbreviation
  1. earned run.
  2. efficiency report.
  3. emergency room.
  1. a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupation or labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance (six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner).
  2. a suffix serving as the regular English formative of agent nouns, being attached to verbs of any origin (bearer; creeper; employer; harvester; teacher; theorizer).
  1. a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from French in the Middle English period, most often names of occupations (archer; butcher; butler; carpenter; grocer; mariner; officer), but also other nouns (corner; danger; primer). Some historical instances of this suffix, as in banker or gardener, where the base is a recognizable modern English word, are now indistinguishable from denominal formations with -er1, as miller or potter.
  1. a termination of nouns denoting action or process: dinner; rejoinder; remainder; trover.
  1. a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adjectives: harder; smaller.
  1. a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adverbs: faster.
  1. a formal element appearing in verbs having frequentative meaning: flicker; flutter; shiver; shudder.
  1. a suffix that creates informal or jocular mutations of more neutral words, which are typically clipped to a single syllable if polysyllabic, before application of the suffix, and which sometimes undergo other phonetic alterations: bed-sitter; footer; fresher; rugger. Most words formed thus have been limited to English public-school and university slang; few, if any, have become current in North America, with the exception of soccer, which has also lost its earlier informal character.
abbreviation
  1. King Edward.
abbreviation
  1. Queen Elizabeth.
abbreviation
  1. East Riding (Yorkshire).
  2. East River (New York City).
  3. emergency room.
interjection
  1. a sound made when hesitating in speech
the internet domain name for
  1. Eritrea
the chemical symbol for
  1. erbium
abbreviation for
  1. (in the US) Emergency Room (in hospitals)
  2. Elizabeth Regina
  3. Eduardus Rex
suffix forming nouns
  1. a person or thing that performs a specified action
  2. a person engaged in a profession, occupation, etc
  3. a native or inhabitant of
  4. a person or thing having a certain characteristic
suffix
  1. forming the comparative degree of adjectives (deeper, freer, sunnier, etc) and adverbs (faster, slower, etc)
    Er (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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