English Explanatory Dictionary

ware

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  2. See wares.
  3. Pottery or metal goods.
  4. A style or genre of artifact.
  5. Crockery.
adj
  1. Aware.
verb
  1. To be ware or mindful of something.
  2. To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
adj
  1. Wary; cautious.
noun
  1. Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
verb
  1. Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)
noun
  1. Spring, springtime.
verb
  1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
verb
  1. simple past of wear
name
  1. A placename:
  2. A place in England:
  3. A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291)
  4. A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614).
  5. A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860).
  6. A number of places in the United States:
  7. An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois.
  8. An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
  9. An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
  10. A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
  11. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri.
  12. Ellipsis of Ware County.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɛə/ /ˈwɛɹ/ en-us-ware.ogg /ˈweː/ /ˈwe̝ə/ /ˈwiə/ /ˈweɹ/ /ˈwɜː(ɹ)/

Word forms

ware wares more ware most ware waring wared wore

Etymology

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).

Related words

ward

Derived words

Abruzzi ware Belleek ware Biddery ware biscuit ware Bizen ware Böttger ware cameo ware Chien ware Jian ware Cizhou ware Corded Ware culture crouch ware Della Robbia ware Gombroon ware Hafner ware Haymarket ware Iga ware iridescent ware Iznik ware Jackfield ware jasperware Ju ware Karatsu ware Kubachi ware lacquer-ware lava ware Limoges ware Minyan ware Nabeshima ware Oribe ware Orvieto ware Palissy ware Quimper ware rustic ware Ru ware Samian ware sanitary ware Satsuma ware Sèvres ware Shino ware Torquay ware -ware Yixing ware aware beware unware wary ware goose Ware County Ware Opening

Translations

Bulgarian: пазя се от Bulgarian: внимавам Ido: -aj Italian: diffidare Italian: stare all'erta Ukrainian: берегти́ся
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