rare
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[edit] Etymology 1
Middle English rare, from Latin rarus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English gǣsne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldsene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old Norse sialdsēnn).
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rare (comparative rarer, superlative rarest)
- Very uncommon; scarce.
- Black pearls are very rare and therefore, very valuable.
- (of cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
- (of a gas) thin; of low density
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- (very uncommon): scarce, uncommon
- (cooked very lightly): sanguinary
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very uncommon
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cooked very lightly
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Variant of rear.
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rare (third-person singular simple present rares, present participle raring, simple past and past participle rared)
- (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 328:
- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 328:
- (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
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rare
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rare
- The inflected formFAQ of raar.
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From Latin rārus.
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- rare
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rare
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rare pl.
- feminine form of raro
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rāre
- vocative masculine singular of rārus
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rare
- absolute definite natural masculine form of rar.
