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Serer vs Seder - What's the difference?

serer | seder |

As nouns the difference between serer and seder

is that serer is an individual of the Serer people while seder is the ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover.

As an adjective serer

is comparative of sere.

As a proper noun Serer

is a West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

serer

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (sere)
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    sere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Without moisture.
  • * 1798 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) , part 5:
  • 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 .
  • * 1868 , (Henry Lonsdale), The Worthies of Cumberland , volume concerning Sir J. R. G. Graham, chapter 1, page 1:
  • …whilst the 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.
  • * 1984 , (Vernor Vinge), (The Peace War) , chapter 37:
  • The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
  • Synonyms
    * seral community

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) serre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) claw; talon
  • (Chapman)
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * sear

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    seder

    English

    Noun

  • (Judaism) The ceremonial meal held on the first night or two nights of Passover.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 332:
  • *:On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership.
  • (Judaism) One of the 54 parts into which the Torah is divided.
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