noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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UK, US:/ˈskɛɹi/
Southern-England:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -ɛɹi
homophone: scary (only in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)
CMU ARPABET:S K EH1 R IY0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 1
A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From dialectal Scots (Shetlandic and Orcadian) skerry, from Old Norse sker (whence Danish skær and Norwegian Bokmål skjær). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
скалист остров
(skalist ostrov)
— small rocky island
Catalan:
illot rocós
— small rocky island
Danish:
skær
— small rocky island
Dutch:
scheer
— small rocky island
Esperanto:
ŝero
— small rocky island
Estonian:
skäär
— small rocky island
Faroese:
sker
— small rocky island
Faroese:
fles
— small rocky island
Finnish:
kari
— small rocky island
Finnish:
luoto
— small rocky island
French:
écueil
— small rocky island
Galician:
illote
— small rocky island
Georgian:
შხერი
(šxeri)
— small rocky island
German:
Schäre
— small rocky island
Greek:
βραχονησίδα
(vrachonisída)
— small rocky island
