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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seer \Seer\ (s[=e]r), adjective Sore; painful. [Prov. Eng.] --Ray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seer \Se"er\ (s[=e]"[~e]r), noun One who sees. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seer \Seer\ (s[=e]r), noun [From {See}.] A person who foresees events; a prophet. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seer
noun
1: a person with unusual powers of foresight [syn: {visionary}, {illusionist}]
2: an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies"
3: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: {prophet}, {oracle}, {vaticinator}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "seer": Cassandra, Don Quixote, Druid, Quixote, TV-viewer, astrologer, augur, authority, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, calamity howler, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, daydreamer, divinator, diviner, divineress, doctor, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, drugstore cowboy, elder, elder statesman, enthusiast, escapist, eyewitness, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, geomancer, girl-watcher, goggler, great soul, guru, haruspex, idealist, illuminate, intellect, intellectual, kibitzer, looker, looker-on, lotus-eater, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, mentor, observer, ogler, onlooker, oracle, palmist, perceiver, percipient, philosopher, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, rabbi, religious prophets, rhapsodist, rishi, romancer, romantic, romanticist, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, seeress, sibyl, sidewalk superintendent, soothsayer, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, starets, televiewer, television-viewer, thinker, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vates, video-gazer, viewer, visionary, watcher, weather prophet, wise man, wise old man, wishful thinker, witness
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Seer a name sometimes applied to the prophets because of the visions granted to them. It is first found in 1 Sam. 9:9. It is afterwards applied to Zadok, Gad, etc. (2 Sam. 15:27; 24:11; 1 Chr. 9:22; 25:5; 2 Chr. 9:29; Amos 7:12; Micah 3:7). The "sayings of the seers" (2 Chr. 33:18, 19) is rendered in the Revised Version "the history of Hozai" (marg., the seers; so the LXX.), of whom, however, nothing is known. (See {PROPHET}.)
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