fier

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Definition of fier

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of fire.
    “The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.”
    “The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.””
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noun

  1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of fire.
    “The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.”
    “The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.””

name

  1. A city and municipality in southwestern Albania, located east of the Adriatic Sea on the river Gjanica, just south of its confluence with the river Seman; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
  2. A county of Albania.
  3. A municipality of Albania.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Fier, from fier (“fern”). Alternatively borrowed from Italian fiera (“trade fair”) due to the arrival of Venetian merchants during the Renaissance.

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