tier

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English

Etymology 1

tie +‎ -er

Pronunciation

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

  1. One who ties (knots, etc).
  2. Something that ties.
  3. (archaic) A child's apron.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle French tier, from Old French tire (“rank, sequence, order, kind”), probably from tirer (“to draw, draw out”). Alternatively, from a Germanic source related to Middle English tir (“honour, glory, power, rule”), Old English tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

  1. A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
  2. A rank or grade; a stratum.
    Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:
      Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.
    • 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian‎:
      At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.
  3. (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
    • 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:
      This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.
    • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:
      On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

tier (third-person singular simple present tiers, present participle tiering, simple past and past participle tiered)

  1. (transitive) To arrange in layers.
  2. (transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
  3. (transitive, computing) To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
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Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From a dialectal form or pronunciation of Dutch tijger, from Middle Dutch tiger.

Pronunciation

Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)

  1. tiger
  2. leopard
    Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +‎ er.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

tier c (singular definite tieren, plural indefinite tiere)

  1. ten (the card between the nine and jack in a given suit)
  2. ten (a monetary denomination worth ten units)
  3. number ten (a person or a thing defined by the number ten, e.g. a bus-line)
  4. (in the plural) tens (the second decade of a century, like the 1910s or 2010s)
Declension
Declension of tier
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tier tieren tiere tierne
genitive tiers tierens tieres tiernes
See also
Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es toer treer firer femmer sekser syver
otter nier tier knægt, bonde dame, dronning konge joker

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

tier

  1. present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

tier

  1. inflection of tieren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Ladin

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Etymology

From Middle High German tier, from Old High German tior, from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.

Noun

tier m (plural tieres)

  1. (gherdëina, badiot) animal
  2. A person who has a quality thought of as animalistic, such as ferocity, strength, hairiness, etc.
    Ël lëura sciche n tier.
    He works like an animal.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

tier m (definite singular tieren, indefinite plural tiere, definite plural tierne)

  1. a ten kroner coin
  2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

  1. present of tie

References

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tier.

Noun

tier m (plural tiers)

  1. (Sursilvan) animal

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
  • (Sursilvan) bestia
  • (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha
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