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English

Etymology 1

tie +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: t?'?(r), IPA^(key): /?ta?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: t?'?r, IPA^(key): /?ta?.?/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tire, tyre

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

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

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 t?r (“glory, honour, fame”), German Zier (“adornment, ornament, decoration”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tî, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• (US) enPR: tîr, IPA^(key): /?t??/
• Hyphenation: tier
• Homophones: tear (as in droplet from one's eye)

Noun

tier (plural tiers)

1. A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.

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.

References

• Tier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tire, trie

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Noun

tier (plural tiere or tiers)

1. tiger
2. leopard

   Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd

Danish

Etymology 1

From ti (“ten”) +? er

Alternative forms

• 10'er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti???r/, [?t?i??]

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)

Inflection

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti??r/, [?t?i??]
• Homophone: tiger

Verb

tier

1. present tense of tie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ir

Verb

tier

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

Anagrams

• riet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

1. a ten kroner coin, worth about £1 in Britain.
2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

Verb

tier

1. present of tie

References

• “tier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

English

Etymology

From Old French succession, from Latin successio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s?k?s??.?n/

Noun

succession (countable and uncountable, plural successions)

1. An act of following in sequence.
2. A sequence of things in order.
3. A passing of royal powers.
4. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
5. A race or series of descendants.
6. (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
7. A right to take possession.
8. (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
9. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

Synonyms

• (an act of following in sequence): See Thesaurus:posteriority
• (a sequence of things in order): See Thesaurus:sequence

Derived terms

• successional
• successionary

Related terms

• successive

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin successio, successionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syk.s?.sj??/

Noun

succession f (plural successions)

1. succession
2. Series
3. Inheritance, as in the passing of possessions from a deceased person to his or her inheritors

Derived terms

• droits de succession

Further reading

• “succession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).