wer
Speech parts
1. wer - Noun
2. wer - Verb
Meaning
man
(obsolete or historical) A man; a male; a husband
(obsolete or historical) A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
wer
Eye dialect spelling of were.
male
husband
(poetic) hero, warrior
(in compounds) civil
werrēaf ― civil dress, civil clothing
werþēod ― people, nation
wer m (nominative plural weras)
weir
WER
Initialism of word error rate.
Synonyms
Examples
In Germany and Austria, Home Improvement has been shown in dubbing under the title Hör mal wer da hämmert (“Listen who’s hammering”).
David Sargent, principal and CEO of WER Architects/Planners In Little Rock, expects the health care sector to generate a significant amount of work for Arkansas firms in the year ahead.
If they appeared in likenesse of anie defunct to some friends of his, they wer called vmbræ mortuorum: And so innumerable stiles they got, according to their actiones, as I haue said alreadie.
WER has joined forces with a network of international relief organisations in order to rush emergency aid supplies to Zimbabwe as millions of people suffer in the midst of a desperate humanitarian crisis within the country.
When one of the partners at WER casually said, “I wish I could clone you so you could come work for us.”
It is also cognate to the word "wem" (the dative form of "wer") in German.