"healer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhiːlə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈhilɚ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-healer.wav Forms: healers [plural]
Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|helere}} Middle English helere, {{lg|agent noun}} agent noun, {{suffix|en|heal|er|id2=agent noun}} heal + -er, {{cog|nl|heler|t=healer}} Dutch heler (“healer”), {{cog|de|Heiler|t=healer}} German Heiler (“healer”), {{cog|is|heilari|t=healer}} Icelandic heilari (“healer”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} healer (plural healers)
  1. One who heals, especially through faith. Translations (person who heals): المعالج (Arabic), лечител (lečitel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), caj (Canela), léčitel [masculine] (Czech), genezer [masculine] (Dutch), heler [masculine] (Dutch), genezeres [feminine] (Dutch), heleres [feminine] (Dutch), resanigiisto (Esperanto), parantaja (Finnish), guérisseur [masculine] (French), guérisseuse [feminine] (French), მკურნალი (mḳurnali) (Georgian), Heiler [masculine] (German), Heilerin [feminine] (German), gyógyító (Hungarian), penyembuh (Indonesian), guaritore [masculine] (Italian), nganga (Kituba), sānātor [masculine] (Latin), sanatrix [feminine] (Latin), исцели́тел (iscelítel) [masculine] (Macedonian), бајач (bajač) [masculine] (Macedonian), uzdrowiciel [masculine] (Polish), znachor [masculine] (Polish), curandeiro [masculine] (Portuguese), vindecător [masculine] (Romanian), vindecătoare [feminine] (Romanian), цели́тель (celítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), зна́харь (znáxarʹ) [masculine] (Russian), zdravilec [masculine] (Slovene), zdravilka [feminine] (Slovene), curandero [masculine] (Spanish), santero [masculine] (Spanish), sanador [masculine] (Spanish), helare [common-gender] (Swedish), helbrägdagörare [common-gender] (Swedish), ціли́тель (cilýtelʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ціли́телька (cilýtelʹka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), רופא (royfe) (Yiddish), inyanga [class-10, class-9] (Zulu), ugedla class 11/10 (Zulu), umthandazi [class-1, class-2] (Zulu)
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  2. Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
    Sense id: en-healer-en-noun-bT7kUiJq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: faith healer, medicine man, quack, quack doctor, shaman, witch doctor Derived forms: time is a great healer, time is a great healer of all wounds, time is the great healer

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
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      "word": "time is a great healer"
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      "word": "quack"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "المعالج"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "caj"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "léčitel"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "genezer"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heler"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "resanigiisto"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "parantaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guérisseur"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "guérisseuse"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mḳurnali",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "მკურნალი"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Heiler"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Heilerin"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "gyógyító"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "penyembuh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "guaritore"
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      "code": "ktu",
      "lang": "Kituba",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "nganga"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sānātor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sanatrix"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "iscelítel",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "исцели́тел"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "bajač",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бајач"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uzdrowiciel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "znachor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "curandeiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vindecător"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vindecătoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "celítelʹ",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "цели́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "znáxarʹ",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зна́харь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zdravilec"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zdravilka"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "curandero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sanador"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "helare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "helbrägdagörare"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "cilýtelʹ",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ціли́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "cilýtelʹka",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ціли́телька"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "royfe",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "רופא"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "class-10",
        "class-9"
      ],
      "word": "inyanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "word": "ugedla class 11/10"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "person who heals",
      "tags": [
        "class-1",
        "class-2"
      ],
      "word": "umthandazi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "healer"
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Zulu: 'ugedla class 11/10', originally 'ugedla class 11/10'",
  "path": [
    "healer"
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "healer",
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}

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