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-er
1a 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 ).
a suffix serving as the regular English formative of agent nouns, being attached to verbs of any origin (bearer; creeper; employer; harvester; teacher; theorizer ).
E.R.
2abbreviation
King Edward.
-er
3a 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.
E.R.
4abbreviation
Queen Elizabeth.
-er
5a termination of nouns denoting action or process: dinner; rejoinder; remainder; trover .
E.R.
6abbreviation
East Riding (Yorkshire).
East River (New York City).
-er
7a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adjectives: harder; smaller .
-er
8a suffix regularly used in forming the comparative degree of adverbs: faster .
-er
9a formal element appearing in verbs having frequentative meaning: flicker; flutter; shiver; shudder .
-er
10a 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.
er
11[uh, er]
interjection
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.)
Er
12erbium.
ER
13abbreviation
Baseball.earned run.
efficiency report.
-er
1suffix
a person or thing that performs a specified action
reader
decanter
lighter
a person engaged in a profession, occupation, etc
writer
baker
bootlegger
a native or inhabitant of
islander
Londoner
villager
a person or thing having a certain characteristic
newcomer
double-decker
fiver
ER
2abbreviation
(in the US) Emergency Room (in hospitals)
Elizabeth Regina
Eduardus Rex
-er
3suffix
forming the comparative degree of adjectives ( deeper, freer, sunnier, etc) and adverbs ( faster, slower, etc)
Er
4symbol
erbium
er
5/ ə, ɜː /
interjection
a sound made when hesitating in speech
er
6abbreviation
Eritrea
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Example Sentences
I’m hoping that at least we can start to move the needle a bit because, listen, that Warner Bros. lot, when I was a kid starting out, I would go on that lot, I would see the little “ER” backlot with the diner and all of it.
Clooney, with co-star Anthony Edwards, had earlier been behind a live broadcast of “Ambush,” the fourth season opener of “ER” as a throwback to the particular seat-of-your-pants, walking-on-a-wire energy of 1950s television.
His television credits also include the Paramount+ drama “Tulsa King,” “Ray Donovan,” “Friday Night Lights,” “ER” and “Charmed.”
Mahaffey appeared in episodes of dozens of television series over her five-decade career, including medical drama ER, the dystopian series The Man in the High Castle, and the musical series Glee.
And David Alan Grier stars as Dr. Ron, a devoted physician and cranky veteran who’s seen it all in the overrun ER of a small-town hospital in NBC’s “St. Denis Medical.”
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