Noun: pier
Sample Sentences
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Your boat is docked at the pier.
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There is a gaming arcade on the pier.
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A fresh breeze comes off the water and down the pier. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 234:]
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Ryde Pier's claim to fame is being the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier, with construction starting in 1813. [2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line to reopen to Ryde Pier in June... possibly”, in RAIL, number 979, page 24:]
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The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges. [1961 January, “Talking of Trains: The Severn Bridge disaster”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:]
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The new £216m pier will be used by all airlines currently operating out of T2, with more and more flights gradually moving over to the new pier once it becomes fully operational. [2019 April 2, “Manchester Airport opens new pier at Terminal 2”, in Airport Technology:]
Nouns inflected like pier
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pere (“bridge pillar, breakwater”), from either Anglo-Norman pere (“stone”, from Latin petra) or Old French *piere (Old Northern French pire, from either Late Latin *petricus or pēra "satchel"); compare Medieval Latin pira. See: Middle English Nouns '
pere', Middle English Nouns '
pere', Latin Nouns '
petra'.
Verbs referencing "pier"
German Nouns
Pier, Russian Nouns
пирс, Swedish Nouns
pir.