healer
Americannoun
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healers
plural
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a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.
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(in a video game) a category of job classes in a role-playing game, tasked with restoring the health of other player characters in a party, but poorly equipped to either withstand damage from an enemy or deal damage to an enemy.
Healers are essential to any raiding party, but Priest and even Shaman jobs are hard to solo in the early levels.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of healer
First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English helere “Savior, medicine”; see origin at heal, -er 1
Example Sentences
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A faith healer, called to the house in Matla village, gave her syrups and tablets.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was this extraordinary polymath from the 12th century who was a healer, a writer of revelations and an early environmentalist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
I think he should have stuck with the story — he was portraying himself as a doctor because he’s a healer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
She has decided to take Shalom to a traditional healer in search of a cure.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
The wind blew gently, like the calming touch of a healer.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
I was at a sound bath in the North American Mammal Hall at L.A.’s Natural History Museum, surrounded by dioramas of taxidermy, meditative instruments and sound healers from the Oso Sound Healing Studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Many of her own patients came only after first visiting indigenous healers, Tan said, viewing psychiatry as a "last resort".
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
Experts point out that the widespread use of traditional healers for snakebites means that the true scale of the problem is not known, as many deaths will go unrecorded.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
I come from a country where people are more likely to visit sangomas—shamans, traditional healers, pejoratively known as witch doctors—than they are to visit doctors of Western medicine.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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