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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-eer, suffix. - -eer is used to form nouns with the meaning "the person who produces, handles, or is associated with'' the base word:engine + -eer → engineer (= person handling an engine).
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024EER, - EnergySee energy efficiency ratio.
e'er (âr),USA pronunciation adv. [Chiefly Literary.]- ever.
-eer, - a noun-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from French (buccaneer;
mutineer;
pioneer) and productive in the formation of English nouns denoting persons who produce, handle, or are otherwise significantly associated with the referent of the base word (auctioneer;
engineer;
mountaineer;
pamphleteer);
now frequently pejorative (profiteer;
racketeer). Cf. -ary, -er2, -ier 2.
- Latin -ārius -ary as suffix of personal nouns); in some nouns replacing earlier suffixes (see engineer, charioteer) or the French suffix -aire -aire (see musketeer, volunteer)
- French, Middle French -ier (Old French
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -eer, -ier suffix - (forming nouns) indicating a person who is concerned with or who does something specified: auctioneer, engineer, profiteer, mutineer
- (forming verbs) to be concerned with something specified: electioneer
Etymology: from Old French -ier, from Latin -arius -ary Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: e'er /ɛə/ adv - poetic or archaic
a contraction of ever
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