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English

Etymology 1

    From tie +‎ -er.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tier (plural tiers)

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

    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 tīr (“glory, honour, fame”), Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour, renown”).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      tier (plural tiers)

      1. A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
      2. A rank or grade; a stratum.
        Stoke City were playing in the second tier of English football before being promoted to the Premier League.
        • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Government Codex entry:
          Turians have 27 citizenship tiers, beginning with civilians (client races and children). The initial period of military service is the second tier.
        • 2023 May 25, Nic Reuben, “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum review”, in The Guardian‎:
          At various points during the (too frequent, mostly boring, school play-tier) dialogue.
      3. (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain. [from 19th c.]
        • 2017, Nick Brodie, The Vandemonian War, Hardie Grant Books, page 114:
          This party headed towards the tiers and lakes, scouring the country while veering towards Bothwell.
        • 2018, Robbie Arnott, Flames, Text Publishing, published 2023, page 141:
          On she drove, leaving the highway, up a skinny country road, past the snow-capped tier and into the forest on its foothills.
      4. A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
      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.
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      Afrikaans

      Etymology

      From regional/archaic Dutch ti(e)ger, a byform of tijger, from Middle Dutch tîger, from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris, which see. The undiphthongized form may be either dialectal or due to the chiefly learned use of the word. (The hypothesis that -g- fell before diphthongization and the monophthong was then protected by the final -r is unlikely, because loss of intervocalic /ɣ/ is a more recent development.)

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      tier (plural tiere or tiers)

      1. tiger
      2. leopard
        Synonyms: bergtier, luiperd
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      Danish

      Etymology 1

      From ti (“ten”) +‎ -er.

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈtiːˀər/, [ˈtˢiˀɐ]

      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)
      Declension
      More information common gender, singular ...
      See also
      Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
      es toer treer firer femmer sekser syver
      otter nier tier knægt, bonde dame, dronning konge joker

      Etymology 2

      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      tier

      1. present tense of tie

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      Dutch

      Pronunciation

      Verb

      tier

      1. inflection of tieren:
        1. first-person singular present indicative
        2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
        3. imperative

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      Ladin

      Ladin Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

      From Middle High German tier, from Old High German tior, from Proto-West Germanic *deuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *deuzą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewsóm.

      Noun

      tier m (plural tieres)

      1. (gherdëina, badiot) animal
      2. A person who has a quality thought of as animalistic, such as ferocity, strength, hairiness, etc.
        Ël lëura sciche n tier.
        He works like an animal.
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      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Noun

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

      1. a ten kroner coin
      2. something or someone that has the number ten (ti)

      Verb

      tier

      1. present of tie

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      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

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