English Explanatory Dictionary

hare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
  2. The meat from this animal.
  3. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
verb
  1. To move swiftly.
verb
  1. To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
adj
  1. Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
  2. Cold, frosty (of weather).
name
  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. Synonym of Sahtú.
  3. A hamlet in Broadway parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST2915).
  4. An unincorporated community in Williamson County, Texas, United States.
  5. A dialect of Slavey, an Athabaskan language.

Pronunciation

/hɛə/ /hɛː/ /hɛɚ/ en-us-hare.ogg /heː/ /heə/ /hiə/ /heɹ/ /hɜː(ɹ)/

Word forms

hare hares haring hared harr hoar

Etymology

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-. Cognates See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).

Synonyms

rabbit race speed tear Sahtú Kawchottine

Related words

form leveret jackrabbit

Derived words

Allen's hare arctic hare Belgian hare blue hare brown hare chief hare desert hare European hare first catch your hare forhare hare and hounds harebell harebrain hare-brained harebrained harefoot hare-hearted harehound hare kangaroo harekind harelike hareling harelip hare lip hare-lipped monkey hare moon hare scramble hare's ear hare-skin hare-wallaby harish hold with the hare and run with the hounds jack-hare mad as a March hare Manchurian hare March hare mountain hare Patagonian hare red rock hare run with the hare and hunt with the hounds scrub hare sea hare snowshoe hare springhare start a fresh hare start a hare start a hare running varying hare whistling hare you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
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