share
/ʃɛɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.20 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
noun
A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
noun
The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
verb
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
verb
To divide and distribute.
Example Sentences
- "Each of the robbers took a share of the loot."
- "The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience."
- "SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby internationals at Twickenham."
- "Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share."
- "Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows."
- "1606: translation by Philemon Holland of Suetonius, De vita Cæsarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)koréh₂ Proto-Germanic *skarō Proto-West Germanic *skaru Old English sċearu Middle English schare English share From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃɛɚ/
- British English: /ʃɛə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
shares (plural)
shares (present, singular)
sharing (participle, present)
shared (participle, past)
shared (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
shared (first person, past)
sharest (archaic, present)
shared (past, second person)
sharedst (archaic, past)
shareth (archaic, present)