lear
/ˈlɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of lehr.
verb
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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 [...]."
- "'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'"
- "They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear."
- "Better start learing"
- "My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all."
- ""I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: laire, lār, learen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɪɹ/
- British English: /ˈlɪə/