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”; see origin at heal, -er ¹

Example Sentences

One of the biggest movies out right now is “KPop Demon Hunters,” on which you had a voice role, Healer Han.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

Heading backstage, my group’s leader played Healer Lenore, a self-help guru who used a question-and-answer session to cleanse us of daemonic energy — or at least make peace with it.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Second place receives a tin of 15 Jesus Bandages, perfectly functional bandaids adorned with Renaissance-style likenesses of the Healer.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2019

Stephen Dillane won the best actor prize for Faith Healer at the Donmar Warehouse and Billie Piper was named best actress for her role in Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma at the Young Vic.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2017

“And yet she was never taken to St. Mungo’s and no Healer was ever summoned to see her!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Related Words

• physician
• shaman
• therapist