English Explanatory Dictionary

fier

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Archaic form of fire.
name
  1. A city and municipality in southwestern Albania, located east of the Adriatic Sea on the river Gjanica, just south of its confluence with the river Seman; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
  2. A county of Albania.
  3. A municipality of Albania.

Word forms

fier fiers

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Fier, from fier (“fern”). Alternatively borrowed from Italian fiera (“trade fair”) due to the arrival of Venetian merchants during the Renaissance.

Related words

sci-fier
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