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sere

sere · serer · serest

Without moisture; dryWithout moisture; dry.

UK/sɪə/US/sɪ(ə)ɹ/

» In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow.

Meaning

5 senses

(archaic, literary, poetic)Without moisture; dry.
trocken, verwelkt, verdorrt
сухо́йsuxój, иссу́шенныйissúšennyj, увя́дшийuvjádšij
(archaic, literary, poetic)Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
(obsolete)Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)Individual, separate, set apart.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)Different; diverse.

More definitions

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

Examples

1 sentences

In spring brightly green, and spangled with wild flowers, by midsummer this prairie had grown sere and yellow.
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Translations

3 languages

Русский

without moisture — see also dry:

Deutsch

without moisture — see also dry:

Origin

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated,

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews-, *sh₂ews- (“to be dry”).

From Middle English ser, sere, schere, seer, seere, seir, seyr, seyre (“different; diverse, various; distinct, individual; parted, separated; many, several”), from Old Norse sér (“for oneself; separately”, dative reflexive pronoun, literally “to oneself”), from sik (“oneself, myself, yourself, herself, himself; ourselves, yourselves, themselves”), from Proto-Germanic *sek (“oneself”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”). The English word is cognate with Danish sær (“singular”), især (“especially, particularly”), German sich (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Icelandic sig (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Latin sē (“herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Scots seir, Swedish sär (“particularly”).

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