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Foresees vs Foreseer - What's the difference?

foresees | foreseer |

As a verb foresees

is third-person singular of foresee.

As a noun foreseer is

a person who foresees.

foresees

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foresee)

    • foresee

    English

    Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
    • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
    • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs

    foreseer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who foresees