fier

F4I1E1R1

proper noun

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.

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Meanings

fier1

nounfier (plural fiers)

plural fiers

  1. archaicArchaic form of fire.

    The men, “beinge att praiers,” heard odd noises and thought “they sawe one like an Indian leape over the fier.”

    2012, Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, →ISBN, page 45
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    They have also divers conjurations: one they made at what tyme they had taken Captain Smyth prisoner, to know, as they reported, if any more of his countrymen would arrive there, and what they intended; the manner of yt Captain Smyth observed to be as followeth : first, soe some as daie was shut in, they kindled a faire great fier in a lone howse, about which assembled seven priests, takinge Captain Smyth by the hand, and appointing him his seat; about the fier they made a kynd of enchanted circle of meale; that done, the chifest priest, attyred as is expressed, gravely began to sing and shake his rattle, solemly rownding and marching about the fier, the rest followed him silently untill his song was done, which they all shutt up with a groane.

    1849, William Strachey, Richard Henry Major, The History of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, page 92

    The salvadges perceiving so much, subtilely devised how they might put out the fier in the shallop, by which meanes they sawe they should be free from the danger of our men's pieces.

    2000, Colin G. Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, →ISBN

Fier2

proper noun
  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.

Origin

  1. Italianfiera“trade fair”
  2. AlbanianFier
  3. EnglishFier

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

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Translations

Arabic فيير
  • فييرcity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Catalan Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Chinese Mandarin 費里 / 费里
  • 費里 / 费里 (Fèilǐ)city and municipality in southwestern Albania
Czech Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Dutch Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Esperanto Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Finnish Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
German Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Greek Φιέρι
  • Φιέρι (Fiéri)city and municipality in southwestern Albania
Hindi फ़िएर
  • फ़िएर (fier)city and municipality in southwestern Albania
Hungarian Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Italian Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Japanese フィエル
  • フィエルcity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Korean 피에르, 피에르
  • 피에르 (piereu)city and municipality in southwestern Albania
  • 피에르 (piereu)county of Albania
Latvian Fieri
  • Fiericity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Norwegian Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Romanian Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Russian Фиери
  • Фиери (Fijeri)city and municipality in southwestern Albania
Spanish Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Swedish Fier
  • Fiercity and municipality in southwestern Albania
Urdu فیر
  • فیر (fer)city and municipality in southwestern Albania

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Cite this entry
APA

fier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fier

MLA

“fier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fier. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fier,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fier.

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