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sere

adj
/sɪə/UK/sɪ(ə)ɹ/US/sɪɚ/US/sɪə̯(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *h₂sews-✻
  2. inherited from *sauzaz✻
  3. inherited from *sauʀ(ī)✻
  4. inherited from sēar
  5. inherited from ser

Definitions

  1. Without moisture

    Without moisture; dry.

    • The autumn winds rushing / Waft the leaves that are searest, / But our flower was in flushing, / When blighting was nearest.
    • [T]he recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.

  2. Of thoughts, etc.

    Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.

    • Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere— Our memories were treacherous and sere—

  3. Of fabrics

    Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

    • The roaring wind! it roar'd far off, / It did not come anear; / But with its sound it shook the sails / That were so thin and sere.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series…

      A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved.

      • We examined one of several seres found in the middle Rocky Mountains that progress from a subalpine or montane forb-dominated meadow to a climax forest dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii).
      • [C]ommunity types may represent either climax plant associations or successional communities within a sere.
      • [S]ome communities persisted as repeating early successional seres ("disclimaxes"), while climax communities could contain small areas of different sere communities.

    2. A claw, a talon.

      • Her [Minerva's] seres struck through Achilles' tent, and closely she instill'd / Heaven's most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast, and fill'd / His sinews with that sweet supply, for fear unsavoury fast / Should creep into his knees.

    3. Individual, separate, set apart.

      • Therefore I have ſeene good ſhooters [archers] which would have for everye bowe a ſere caſe, made of wullen clothe, and then you maye putte three or four of them ſo caſed, into a lether caſe if you will.

    4. Different

      Different; diverse.

    5. Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces…

      Acronym of survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (“training to prepare Western forces to survive when evading or captured”).

    6. A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic…

      A proposed language family of Ubangian languages spoken in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sere. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA