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pheer

pheer is the alternative spelling of fere.

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

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Forms of pheer

pluralpheers
alternative formfeer
alternative formfere

Questions about pheer

What is pheer the alternative spelling of?
Pheer is the alternative spelling of fere.

Words near pheer in the dictionary

  1. phee-call
  2. phee-calls
  3. pheenom
  4. pheenoms
  5. pheep
  6. pheer
  7. pheers
  8. pheese
  9. pheesed
  10. pheeses
  11. pheesing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pheer (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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