healer
noun
a person or thing that heals wounds, cures illness, restores health, or otherwise makes well and whole.
healers
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pluralof healer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Adam Hussein, a 35-year-old representative for Mongbwalu's traditional faith healers, fretted about Ebola denial and called on everyone to take precautions.
From Barron's ● May 24, 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
Women were not the only nonphysician healers of the Renaissance, and good thing, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Then quietly, more as if speaking to herself than to him: 'But the healers would have me lie abed seven days yet,’ she said.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
