Definition of Serer

1. Noun. A West African language closely related to Fula; spoken primarily in Senegal and Gambia.

Generic synonyms: West African

Definition of Serer

1. Noun. An individual of the Serer people. ¹

2. Proper noun. A West African ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. ¹

3. Proper noun. The language of the Serer people. ¹

4. Proper noun. A religion practiced by the Serer people. ¹

5. Adjective. (comparative of sere) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Serer

1. sere [adj] - See also: sere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serer

Serbophiles
Serbs
Sercquiais
Serdica
Seremban
Serena
Serendib
Serendip
Serene
Serengeti
Serengeti cat
Serengeti cats
Serenity
Serenoa
Serenoa repens
Serer (current term)
Serers
Serge Koussevitzky
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov
Sergent's white line
Sergey

Literary usage of Serer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"The third, a serer, an inferior secretary, was a man of little relative importance compared with the other two. We conversed for an hour, through the medium ..."

2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1902)
"... that they meant to serer the joint-tenancy as to both. The decree must therefore be altered accordingly. 1806. WEIGHT r. ..."

3. The Languages of West Africa by Frederick William Hugh Migeod (1911)
"There is, for instance, a second tribe called Serer, who speak a language ... No doubt the explanation is that the Serer using the Non language represent a ..."

4. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"Serer, south of Wolofs, Salum river, and about Cape Verd ; two divisions ; None Serer, in north-west ; Sine Serer, all the rest ; Pagans ; tallest of ..."

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