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neer

neer noun: (anatomy) Kidney.

Noun (1)

neer (plural neers)

  1. (Scotland, Now chiefly dialectal) (anatomy) Kidney.

Noun (2) capitalized: NEER

NEER

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of nominal effective exchange rate.

Proper noun capitalized: Neer

Neer (plural Neers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of neer

Noun
pluralneers
alternative formnear
alternative formneir
Proper noun
pluralNeers

Origin of neer

From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós. Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).

Questions about neer

What does neer mean?
Neer means (anatomy) Kidney.
What part of speech is neer?
Neer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of neer?
The plural of neer is neers.

Words near neer in the dictionary

  1. neep lanterns
  2. Neepawa
  3. neepery
  4. neeps
  5. Neepsend
  6. neer
  7. neera
  8. Neeraj
  9. neeramulliya
  10. Neereman
  11. NEERI

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neer (page history and authors); NEER (page history and authors); Neer (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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