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1. discern
verb. ['dɪˈsɝːn'] detect with the senses.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- discernen (Middle English (1100-1500))
- discerner (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Discern
- unconcern
- concern
- upturn
- sauterne
- return
- new-bern
- mckern
- mcgurn
- laverne
- amburn
- alpern
- sturn
- stirn
- sterne
- stern
- stearne
- stearn
- spurn
- ohern
- o'hern
- ohearn
- o'hearn
- obyrne
- o'byrne
- o'beirne
- aherne
- ahern
- ahearn
- adjourn
- zurn
How do you pronounce discern?
Pronounce discern as dɪˈsərn.
US - How to pronounce discern in American English
UK - How to pronounce discern in British English
How do you spell discern? Is it decern ?
A common misspelling of discern is decern
Sentences with discern
1. Verb, base form
Pray for guidance to help you discern if this is the right path for you.
Quotes about discern
1. Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.
- Anthony Bourdain
2. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
- C.G. Jung
3. To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
