Fere vs Sere - What's the difference?
fere | sere |
A companion, comrade or friend.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
(label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
*1830 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
Without moisture.
* 1798 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) ,
* 1868 , (Henry Lonsdale), The Worthies of Cumberland , volume concerning Sir J. R. G. Graham, chapter 1,
* 1984 , (Vernor Vinge), (The Peace War) , chapter 37:
An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
As nouns the difference between fere and sere
is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while sere is .As an adjective fere
is (obsolete) fierce.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* free * reef ----sere
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)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 .
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.
- The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.
