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Serer vs Seter - What's the difference?

serer | seter |

As nouns the difference between serer and seter

is that serer is an individual of the Serer people while seter is a summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.

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)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    seter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.
  • * 1964 , Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway , page 114:
    • Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
  • * 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
    • In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters' in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the ' seters .
  • * 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
    • For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
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    • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun