farseer
/ˈfɑɹˌsiːɚ/noun
farseer is a noun meaning “One who farsees; prophet; soothsayer; fortuneteller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-S-E-E-R, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farseer is farseers.
What does farseer mean?
noun
- 1
One who farsees; prophet; soothsayer; fortuneteller.
- 2
An instrument or tool used to farsee; scope
- 3
A television set.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farseer?
- UK /ˈfɑːsɪə/
- US /ˈfɑɹˌsiːɚ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-farseer.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of farseer
- farseers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farseer?
Farseer appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does farseer come from?
Modelled after German Fernseher (“TV set”, literally “farseer”), from Fernsehen (“television”, literally “farsee”), calque of French télévision, from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “far away”) and Latin visio (“sight”). By surface analysis, far + seer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).