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