witcher

US/ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/

witcher noun: a dowser. Also the pronunciation spelling of with your.

Noun (1)

witcher (plural witchers)

A dowser.

Noun (2)

witcher (plural witchers)

A male witch; warlock.
A human who has undergone a controlled mutation so that he can kill monsters as a professional mercenary in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series.

Proper noun capitalized: Witcher

Witcher (plural Witchers)

A surname.

Also used as

witcher is also the pronunciation spelling of with your.

Forms of witcher

Noun
plural	witchers
Proper noun
plural	Witchers

Origin of witcher

From witch + -er, from the popular belief that dowsing was a supernatural act.

Contraction of with + your.

From witch + -er, a male equivalent of witch using the -er suffix as masculine, as in widower vs. widow, a calque of Polish wiedźmin. Possibly influenced by witchery. The Polish word was coined in 1986 by author Andrzej Sapkowski as a male equivalent of wiedźma (“witch”) for his The Witcher book series and media franchise. The English calque witcher was popularized by the series' English translation.

Words formed from witcher

water witcher

Words that rhyme with witcher

Questions about witcher

What does witcher mean?: Witcher means a dowser.
What part of speech is witcher?: Witcher can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce witcher?: Witcher is pronounced /ˈwɪt͡ʃɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of witcher?: The plural of witcher is witchers.

Words near witcher in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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