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seter

seter is the alternative spelling of saeter.

Meaning of saeter

Noun

saeter (plural saeters)

  1. A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
  2. A barn, cabin, dairy, or farm located in such a meadow.
  3. (Orkney, Shetland) A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling.

Noun (1)

seter (plural seters)

  1. A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
    • The lowest important terrace, known as Sherbrooke-street terrace, lies at a height of 36-6 meters in the Leda clay; the next, Waterwork terrace, at a height of 67 meters, is excavated in the lower Silurian limestone, and I am not sure whether it should not be regarded as a seter.1906, Eduard Suess, “The Face of the Earth”, in Das Antlitz der Erde, page 479
    • As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.2003, The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere, →ISBN, page 227

Noun (2)

seter (plural seters)

  1. A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.
    • Similar to the seter, it is forbidden to touch the tree, or to chop the tree down for firewood, or timber. It is clear that the sacred tree and the seter cow have powers, beyond that of an ordinary cow or tree, which assist in protecting the herding family and their herd of animals from harm.2011, Natasha Fijn, Living with Herds: Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia, →ISBN, page 232
    • As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets (seter, lusyn örgöl) on her manual sewing machine.2011, Morten Axel Pedersen, Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia, →ISBN, page 154

Forms of seter

pluralseters

Origin of seter

See saeter.

Questions about seter

What does seter mean?
Seter means a natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
What is seter the alternative spelling of?
Seter is the alternative spelling of saeter.
What part of speech is seter?
Seter is a noun.
What is the plural of seter?
The plural of seter is seters.

Words near seter in the dictionary

  1. Setebosian
  2. setee
  3. setees
  4. setenant
  5. setenants
  6. seter
  7. seters
  8. Setet
  9. SETF
  10. setfast
  11. setfasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seter (page history and authors); saeter (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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