Christer

English Etymology en :af Christ -er<id:ideology> + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈkɹaɪstɚ/ Noun en sometimes derogatory A Christian who publicly displays his or her religion. en 1917 L. V. Hodgkin A Book of Quaker Saints http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19605 The village people called his father 'Righteous Christer,' which shows that he too must have been 'stiff as a tree' in following what he knew to be right. Hypernyms person who publicly displays his or her religion en fundamentalist, en fanatic, en witness Anagrams en cehirrst Richerts en religious slurs eponyms en Christianity Norwegian Proper noun no proper noun no male derived from Christian, through a medieval form Christiern Swedish Alternative forms sv Krister Etymology Variant of sv Christian through a medieval form Christiern. First recorded in Sweden in 1484. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Christer.wav Proper noun c sv male References Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, 91-21-10937-0 Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 60 621 males with the given name Christer living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1940s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.