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feer

feer is the alternative form of fear.

feer is the alternative form of fere.

Meaning of fear

Adjective

fear (comparative more fear, superlative most fear)

  1. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
    • hale and fear

See all 15 meanings of fear

Meaning of fere

Noun

fere (plural feres)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
    • they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V
  2. (archaic) A person's spouse, or an animal's mate.
    • And Cambel tooke Cambrina to his fere.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52

See all 3 meanings of fere

Verb

feer (third-person singular simple present feers, present participle feering, simple past and past participle feered)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark (a field) with furrows before ploughing.

Forms of feer

Adjective
comparativemore feer
superlativemost feer
Noun
pluralfeers
Verb
third-person singular presentfeers
present participlefeering
past participlefeered
pastfeered

Origin of feer

From Middle English fere, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”). More at fear.

From Middle English fere, from Old English ġefēra.

Words formed from feer

Questions about feer

What does feer mean?
Feer means to mark (a field) with furrows before ploughing.
What is feer the alternative form of?
Feer is the alternative form of fear.
What part of speech is feer?
Feer is a verb.
What is the past tense of feer?
The past tense of feer is feered.

Words near feer in the dictionary

  1. Feeny
  2. Feenys
  3. feepayer
  4. feepayers
  5. feepaying
  6. feer
  7. feere
  8. feered
  9. feeres
  10. feerie
  11. feeries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feer (page history and authors); fear (page history and authors); fere (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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