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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.
Noun[edit]
lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)
- (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
- (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
- when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
- 1898, Francis James Child (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy, from Child's Ballads,
- They dressed up in maids' array,
- And passd for sisters fair;
- With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
- For to seek after lear.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”). Doublet of learn (Etymology 2).
Verb[edit]
lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)
- (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
- (intransitive, archaic) To learn.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales,
- He hath take on him many a great emprise,
- Which were full hard for any that is here
- To bring about, but they of him it lear.
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales,
Etymology 3[edit]
See lehr.
Noun[edit]
lear (plural lears)
- Alternative form of lehr
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lear m (genitive singular lir)
Derived terms[edit]
- thar lear (“overseas”)
Volapük[edit]
Noun[edit]
lear (plural lears)
Declension[edit]
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