Antonyms for tier

Grammar : Noun

Spell : teer

Phonetic Transcription : tɪər

Definition of tier

Origin : "row, rank, range," 1560s, from Middle French tire, from Old French tire "rank, sequence, order" (early 13c.), probably from tirer "to draw, draw out" (see tirade). Some suggests the French noun is from a Germanic source akin to Old High German ziari, German Zier "adornment," Old English tir "glory, honor."

noun level

Example sentences :

The porters arranged them symmetrically, tier by tier, on the vehicles.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

Then they ran along the second tier of roofs beneath the open heavens.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

Everybody in the yawl was eagerly looking after the form of Tier.
Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various

When we got into dock we had lost our turn for loading, and they hauled us off to a tier where we remained for a month.
Extract from : « Youth » by Joseph Conrad

"It's steep to-night," he mutters, as tier on tier of cloud drops under.
Extract from : « With The Night Mail » by Rudyard Kipling

This operation was repeated until a tier of slabs had been molded.
Extract from : « Concrete Construction » by Halbert P. Gillette

Tier after tier of these walls extended up the sides of the steep hills.
Extract from : « The Critic in the Orient » by George Hamlin Fitch

He turned his hand, with the three cards in a tier, so that all might see.
Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin

He is at present in the back of that empty box on the third tier.
Extract from : « Condemned as a Nihilist » by George Alfred Henty

Ranged about the walls, piled tier on tier, were black 94 cubes of sand and gravel.
Extract from : « Panther Eye » by Roy J. Snell

Synonyms for tier

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