gare

See also: Gare, garé, garë, garę, and gäre

English

Etymology

Compare gear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

gare (uncountable)

1. coarse wool on the legs of sheep
   • 1542, Statue on Wool:

     That no denyzen or foren make any refuse of wolles but cot gare & vyllayn

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gear, rage

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

gare

1. inflection of gaar:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Verb

gare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of garen

French

Etymology

From garer (“to dock, park”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ/, /ɡɑʁ/

• audio (une gare)

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• Homophone: Gard

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. railway station

Derived terms

• gare ferroviaire
• gare routière

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: гара (gara)
• → Luxembourgish: Gare
• → Portuguese: gare
• → Romanian: gară
• → Turkish: gar
• → Vietnamese: ga

Verb

gare

1. inflection of garer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interjection

gare

1. (transitive with à) beware (something)

   Synonym: attention

   Gare au refroidissement !

   Beware of the cold!

Derived terms

• sans crier gare

Further reading

• “gare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• géra, rage, ragé

German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

gare

1. inflection of garen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: gà‧re

Noun

gare f

1. plural of gara

Anagrams

• Rega, agre, egra, erga

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

gare

1. Alternative form of gor (“spear”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gare

1. Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto gare and Nüpode Huitoto gare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɾɛ]
• Hyphenation: ga‧re

Root

gare

1. cutting of hair

Derived terms

• gareda
• garede

 

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.re/

Noun

gāre

1. dative singular of gār

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French gare.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ɾɨ/

• Hyphenation: ga‧re

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. train station or platform

Scots

Adjective

gare (comparative mair gare, superlative maist gare)

1. greedy; miserly