healer

American  

[hee-ler] / ˈhi lər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of healer

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

Example Sentences

"I was feeling very weak and was scared for my life. When the healer saw me two days later, he said I was lucky to be alive."

From BBC

But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.

From Salon

In Renaissance England, skillful surgeons and herb-dispensing healers competed with charlatan doctors.

From The Wall Street Journal

Women were not the only nonphysician healers of the Renaissance, and good thing, too.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another problem, he adds, is that many people in rural India still rely on faith healers or local medicinal practices and go to hospitals only when their symptoms worsen, which can be lethal.

From BBC

Related Words

• physician
• shaman
• therapist