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Definition: Sere |
SereAdjective1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Avian | A series of stages of community change in a particular area leading toward a stable state (Ricklefs 1979:879). (references) |
Biology & Biotechnology | The sequence of communities in the gradual surplanting of one community of plants by another. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SERE | English | Survival,Evasion,Resistance to Interrogation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SereSynonyms: dried-up (adj), sear (adj), shriveled (adj), shrivelled (adj), withered (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sere |
| English words defined with "sere": dried-up ♦ sear, shriveled, shrivelled ♦ withered. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sere": seral, Subclimax. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sere" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkmen (stare). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Por ti sere. ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens) Y arriba y arriba, por ti sere, ("La Bamba"; performing artist: Ritchie Valens) | |
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Music |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sere": Wood-sere. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sere | 34 |
school sere | 24 |
sere training | 11 |
instructor sere | 4 |
richard sere | 4 |
navy sere | 4 |
army sere | 4 |
navy school sere | 3 |
al mar sere | 3 |
sere usaf | 3 |
al mar sere 2000 | 2 |
air force sere | 2 |
fantacalcio sere | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i fishkur (faded, wasted, withered, wizen, wizened, wrinkled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذابل (blasted, dry, passe, sear, shrivelled, staleness, tatty, withered, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съсухрен (sear, seared, shrunken, wizen), увехнал (dead, sear, withered), изсъхнал (dried, dry, parched, sapless, thirsty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | suchý (arid, bald, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, torrid, wry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | serie (series, set), reeks (file, line, rank, rosary, row, series, set, turn), onafgebroken opeenvolging. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sere, série (series, set), flétri (sear), desséché. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Serie (break, line, run, serial, series, set, string, succession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σειρά (filch, flight, inning, line, range, rank, row, row of, sequence, serial, series, set, string, succession, suit, train, turn), ξηρόσ (arid, droughty, dry, seared, terse), μαραμένοσ (languishing, sear, wizen, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יבש (dry), קמל (withered), כמוש (dried, faded, withered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hervadt (blighted, sear, wilted, withered), fonnyadt (parched, sear, weazened, withered, wizen, wizened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | serie (collection, division, line, range, round, run, sequence, series, set, string, succession, train), sere, appassito (faded, withered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eresay seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jeroboam, parching, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, stale, thirsty, undamped), série (catena, chain, group, line, number, range, run, sequence, series, set, succession, tissue), ressequido (parched, sear, seared, thirsty), murcho (sear, seared). (various references) veştejit (quaggy), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), ofilit (wilting, withered). (various references) сухой (arid, brut, dried, droughty, dry, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, sec), изношенный (battered, down-at-heel, moth-eaten, outworn, raggedy, worn out). (various references) osušen (dried, sapless, wizened). (various references) seco (barren, curt, dead, dried, dry, hacking, parched, rainless, sharp, short, short-spoken, tired), marchito (dead, drooping, droopy, overblown, sear, shrivelled, withered, wizened), cuartel de ordenación (circle, working circle). (various references) förtorka (dry, parch, sear, wither). (various references) แห้ง (arid, dry). (various references) sararmış (fade, flavescent, foxed, foxy, pale, sear, yellow), kurumuş (dried, dry, sear, seared, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references) сухий (arid, brut, chilly, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, withered), поношений (bare, frayed, mangy, napless, old, ole, ratty, reach-me-down, seedy, time worn, well worn, worn). (various references) cái hãm cò súng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Clusia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sere": sered, serein, sereins, serenade, serenaded, serenader, serenaders, serenades, serenading, serenata, serenatas, serenate, serendipities, serendipitous, serendipitously, serendipity, serene, serenely, sereneness, serenenesses, serener, serenes, serenest, serenities, serenity, serer, seres, serest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sere": hydrosere, prisere, subsere, xerosere. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sere": dosseret, dosserets, hydroseres, miserere, misereres, priseres, subseres, xeroseres. (additional references) | |
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"Sere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eere, Eser, esgre, esred, Essere, iere, isere, Oseri, sarae, sarce, sare, Saree, sarei, Sarek, saro, Sarreqi, saru, sder, sdr, seare, Sebrea, Secre, sede, sedret, seece, seee, seerg, seery, Sefel, Sefra, sega, sege, segr, sehr, seje, seke, sele, selra, sepe, sepre, serac, serad, serag, serai, seral, serao, serau, seraw, serax, seray, serd, serec, sered, Serei, Serel, seren, seret, serev, Serez, serg, serh, seri, seric, serid, serii, seril, serio, serip, serk, serl, sern, serne, sero, serod, serp, serq, Serr, serrao, Serre, Serreau, serred, serree, Serret, sers, serse, sert, serud, serul, serut, serv, sery, sete, Seurel, seve, sevre, Sexe, sexee, seze, Sfera, shere, Sibree, sicre, Sierre, sigre, siree, sirel, sirex, sirey, siri, sirree, sirze, sjer, skera, skree, sleri, sorre, sqer, sre, srea, sreb, srec, sree, sreg, srei, srek, srene, sreo, srer, sreu, ssr, ssru, stre, Sverre, sxer, syre, szer, tsere, zeer, zera, zere, zery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sere" (pronounced si"r) |
| 3 | s i" r | financier, insincere, sear, sincere. |
| 2 | -i" r | adhere, Amir, appear, auctioneer, austere, bandolier, beer, belvedere, bioengineer, bombardier, Brigadier, budgeteer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, cheer, Chevalier, clear, commandeer, conventioneer, dear, deer, disappear, domineer, ear, electioneer, emir, engineer, fear, fleer, Frere, frontier, gear, gondolier, hear, here, interfere, jeer, Kier, Lear, marketeer, mere, mir, mutineer, near, overhear, pamphleteer, peer, persevere, pier, pioneer, premier, premiere, profiteer, queer, Racketeer, Rainier, reappear, rear, reengineer, rehear, revere, severe, shear, sheer, smear, sneer, souvenir, spear, Speer, speir, sphere, steer, summiteer, unclear, veer, veneer, volunteer, year, Zaire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rees, seer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ere, ers, ree, res, see, ser. | |
-2 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-s" | |
+1 letter: beers, brees, ceres, deers, drees, egers, erase, ernes, erose, erses, esker, ester, ewers, eyers, eyres, feres, frees, grees, heres, jeers, leers, meres, peers, perse, prees, prese, redes, reeds, reefs, reeks, reels, reest, reges, resee, reset, resew, reuse, rexes, saree, scree, seder, seers, sered, serer, seres, serge, serve, sever, sewer, sheer, siree, sneer, speer, spree, steer, stere, sweer, terse, trees, veers, verse. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 72 65 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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