archer
/ˈɑɹ.t͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
comparative form of arch: more arch
name
The constellation and zodiacal sign Sagittarius.
name
A surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a bowman.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
name
A suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
name
A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "The Balance shows redemption’s need; The Scorpion wounds He must endure; The Archer tells His coming sure; The Goat, His death in sacrifice[.]"
- "The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat, The Man that carries the Water-pot, And Fish with glittering scales."
- "In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see the figure of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man."
- "Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names."
- "No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer."
Etymology
from Middle English archer, archere, from Old French archier, from Vulgar Latin *arcārius, alteration of arcuārius, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Displaced native Old English sċytta.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑɹ.t͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈɑː.t͡ʃəː/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
archers (plural)
the Archer (canonical)