fere

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /fɪə/
• (America) IPA: /fɪɹ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /fiːɹ/

Noun

fere (plural feres)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A companion, comrade or friend.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys.

2. (archaic) A spouse; an animal's mate.

   • And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere.

   • 1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind ↗’:

     The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere, / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.

Adjective

fere

1. (obsolete) Fierce.

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