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bayer

bayer is the comparative form of bay.

Meaning of bay

Adjective

bay (comparative bayer or more bay, superlative bayest or most bay)

  1. (especially) Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
    • Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Proper noun capitalized: Bayer

Bayer

  1. A surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym].

Origin of bayer

Borrowed from German Bayer. The surname is converged from both Bavaria and Middle High German beieren (“to ring a bell”).

Words formed from bayer

Phrases with bayer

Words that rhyme with bayer

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Questions about bayer

What does bayer mean?
Bayer means a surname from German [in turn originating as an ethnonym].
What is bayer the comparative form of?
Bayer is the comparative form of bay.
What part of speech is bayer?
Bayer is a proper noun.

Words near bayer in the dictionary

  1. baydzharakh
  2. baydzharakhs
  3. baye
  4. bayed
  5. Bayelsa
  6. bayer
  7. Bayer designation
  8. Bayer designations
  9. Bayer filter
  10. Bayer filters
  11. Bayer system

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