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Somner vs Somber - What's the difference?

somner | somber |

As a noun somner

is a summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.

As an adjective somber is

dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.

As a verb somber is

alternative form of lang=en.

somner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A summoner; especially, one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.
    • (Piers Plowman)
    (Webster 1913)

    somber

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (Commonwealth English) sombre

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Dirk Wittenborn , title=Fierce People , passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
  • Dark, lacking color or brightness.

    • Synonyms

    * melancholy, unhappy, sad

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

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    Anagrams

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