healer

noun

heal·​er ˈhē-lər How to pronounce healer (audio)
1
: one that heals
plant extracts used by herbalist healers
Time is a great healer.
2
: a Christian Science practitioner

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The moody Moon moves through your 11th House of Friends and conjoins wounded healer Chiron there, reminding you that mutual care fuels real collaboration. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026 There will also be psychic readers, healers, holistic trainers and more. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026 These were the result of years of attempts by traditional healers, who likely recognized the disease but had no treatment to offer. — Borna Nyaoke-Anoke, STAT, 30 July 2026 But the actual healer of sorrow and wrong will always be divine Love, understood and expressed through our unselfish desire to help others. — Margaret Rogers, Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for healer

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First Known Use

12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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healer

noun
heal·​er ˈhē-lər How to pronounce healer (audio)
: one that heals

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