healer

[hee-ler]

noun

1. a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.

2. faith healer.

3. (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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of healer¹

First recorded in 1175–1225; Middle English helere “Savior, medicine”; heal, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Such juju men sometimes refer to themselves as herbalists, the name given to healers who use traditional medicine often made from local plants to treat common illnesses.

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Fan delivered what some critics hailed as a breakthrough performance with her portrayal of a widowed farmer and ritual healer in "Mother Bhumi", a far cry from her usual glamorous roles.

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"The big unanswered question now is which strains are the healers, and which are the troublemakers."

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"We recently held a festival with traditional healers where we sat together and talked," the commissioner tells the BBC.

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When doing this, therapists function less as healers than as vectors of this new disorder.

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Related Words

• physician 
• shaman 
• therapist