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dier

dier noun: one who dies.

Noun

dier (plural diers)

  1. One who dies.
    • It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier.1985, Don DeLillo, White Noise
    • Once a liver, now she's a dier1996, Turbonegro (band), I Got Erection

Proper noun capitalized: Dier

Dier

  1. A surname.

Forms of dier

pluraldiers

Origin of dier

From die + -er.

* As an English surname, variant of Dyer. * As a German surname, from Tier (“wild animal”).

Questions about dier

What does dier mean?
Dier means one who dies.
What part of speech is dier?
Dier can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of dier?
The plural of dier is diers.

Words near dier in the dictionary

  1. Dieppa
  2. Dieppas
  3. Dieppe
  4. Dieps
  5. diequatorial
  6. dier
  7. Dierberg
  8. Dierbergs
  9. dierbium
  10. Diercks
  11. Dierckses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dier (page history and authors); Dier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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