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English
Etymology
From Christ + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
Christer (plural Christers)
- (sometimes derogatory) A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion.
1917, L. V. Hodgkin, A Book of Quaker Saints:The village people called his father 'Righteous Christer,' which shows that he too must have been 'stiff as a tree' in following what he knew to be right.
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Norwegian
Proper noun
Christer
- a male given name derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern
Swedish
Etymology
Variant of Christian through a medieval form Christiern. First recorded in Sweden in 1484.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Christer c (genitive Christers)
- a male given name
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 60 621 males with the given name Christer living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.