English Explanatory Dictionary

stare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To look fixedly (at something).
  2. To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
  3. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
  4. To stand out; to project; to bristle.
noun
  1. A persistent gaze.
noun
  1. A starling.
name
  1. A surname
  2. Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
  3. Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor
name
  1. A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  2. A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  3. A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  4. A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
  5. A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
  6. A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
  7. A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.

Pronunciation

stâr /stɛɚ/ En-us-stair.ogg /stɛə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-stare.wav /steː/ /steə/ /stiə/ /steɹ/ /stɜː(ɹ)/ /stɛə(ɹ)/ /ˈstaɹeɪ/ /stəˈɹeɪ/

Word forms

stare stares staring stared

Etymology

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-. Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Synonyms

gaw gloar glom stare common starling European starling

Related words

stare decisis Stare Selo Stare Sioło

Derived words

astare outstare overstare stare at the wall stare daggers stare down staredown staree stare into space stare like a stuck pig stare out starer stare someone in the face stareworthy starey upstare Antarctic stare death stare fluoride stare Gen Z stare Generation Z stare hundred-yard stare Kubrick stare lead paint stare thousand-mile stare thousand-yard stare

Translations

Polish: Stare Ukrainian: Старе́
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