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er

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interjection

ˈə How to pronounce er (audio)
usually with prolonged vowel
ˈä How to pronounce er (audio)
nonstandard
ˈər How to pronounce er (audio)
used to express hesitation

Er

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symbol

erbium

ER

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abbreviation

1
earned run
2
emergency room

-er

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adjective suffix or adverb suffix

used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs of one syllable
hotterdrier
and of some adjectives and adverbs of two or more syllables
completerbeautifuller

-er

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noun suffix

variants or less commonly -ier or -yer
1
a
: person occupationally connected with
furrier
lawyer
b
: person or thing belonging to or associated with
header
old-timer
c
: native of : resident of
cottager
New Yorker
d
: one that has
three-decker
e
: one that produces or yields
porker
2
a
: one that does or performs (a specified action)
batter
sometimes added to both elements of a compound
builder-upper
b
: one that is a suitable object of (a specified action)
broiler
3
: one that is
foreigner
in all senses -yer in a few words after w, -ier in a few other words, otherwise -er

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web
Interjection
From impressively scary to just scarily easy, these creepy and cute Halloween cake ideas take the... er, cake! Christopher Michel, Country Living, 12 Sep. 2022 Big Sky, er, Big Sky: Deadly Trails, is back for a third season, replete with its usual mystery, danger, and… death. Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022 Bolch later became the first writer on record to covet trips to Spokane while serving a three-season sentence — er, stint — on USC basketball. Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022 But not everybody shares Warren’s apparent capacity for such, er, nuance. BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022 And Texas A&M boosters will celebrate by doubling the salaries, er, NIL payments of the entire roster. Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022 The proximity of Lake Mead to Las Vegas — and that city's, er, colorful associations with organized crime — has not gone unnoticed. Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Aug. 2022 Scott Adkins and Steve Howey steal their scene as vampire-hunting brothers — er, bros. Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022 Aragorn, er, Viggo Mortensen, the Hollywood A-lister with three Oscar nominations. Paddy O'connell, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective suffix or adverb suffix

Middle English -er, -ere, -re, from Old English -ra (in adjectives), -or (in adverbs); akin to Old High German -iro, adjective comparative suffix, Latin -ior, Greek -iōn

Noun suffix

Middle English -er, -ere, -ier, -iere; partly from Old English -ere (from Latin -arius); partly from Old French -ier, -iere, from Latin -arius, -aria, -arium -ary; partly from Anglo-French -ere, from Latin -ator -or — more at -ary, -or

First Known Use

Interjection

1862, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of er was in 1862

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