Sere vs Rere - What's the difference?
sere | rere |
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.
(all meanings).
(Irish, legal, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
As nouns the difference between sere and rere
is that sere is an intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community while rere is an archaic spelling of lang=en (all meanings).As an adjective sere
is without moisture.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.
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* seral communityEtymology 2
(etyl) serreSee also
* searAnagrams
* ----rere
English
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1678 "In the rere' of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the '''rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." ''The Triumphs of London'' (Reprinted 1869 in''Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath) * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere , to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]"
Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in
Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33* 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere ."
Ulysses , Chapter VJames Joyce * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office"
Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule* 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview"
S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area* 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling."
Written Answers. - Departmental BuildingsDáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere , and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]"
Malahide planning noticesFingal Independent , 18 November 2009
Derived terms
* (l)See also
* reredorterReferences
*rereat Wordnik