whare
/ˈfɑːɹeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rough shack or hut built (by Europeans) using traditional Maori techniques; a workman's shack.
New Zealand usage
Example Sentences
- "The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings."
- "We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron."
- "At the far end of the whare there's a wooden bed."
- "Many New Zealanders will know that a whare is a house. But in this context, the whare were being built for a summer hunting and gathering expedition. It was the 1880s, so timber houses also featured, but here the whānau were travelling to tribal lands and building makeshift whare to camp in."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈfɑːɹeɪ/