dier

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
5
Letters
4

Definition of dier

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who dies.
    “It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier.”
    “Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.”
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noun

  1. One who dies.
    “It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier.”
    “Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From die + -er.

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