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Sere
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example Sentences
- Like those two historic ships, she had reached the sere and yellow leaf of her existence.
- The killing drought also continues, turning the river to sand and the fruit trees sere and bare.
- It is something from the sere and yellow of a period much older than the present.
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noun
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
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World English Dictionary
| sere or sear1 (sɪə) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | archaic dried up or withered |
| —vb, —n | |
| 2. | a rare spelling of sear |
| [Old English sēar; see | |
| sear or sear1 | |
| —adj | |
| —vb, —n | |
| [Old English sēar; see | |
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Word Origin & History
sere
O.E. sear "dried up, withered," from P.Gmc. *sauzas (cf. M.L.G. sor, Du. zoor), from PIE base *saus- (cf. Skt. susyati "dries, withers;" O.Pers. uka- "dry" (adj.), "land" (n.); Avestan huka- "dry;" L. sudus "dry"). A good word now relegated to bad poetry. Related to sear. Sere
EXPANDmonth was an old name for "August."
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Science Dictionary
sere  (sîr) Pronunciation Key
The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax community. See more at succession. |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| SERE survival, evasion, resistance, escape |
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