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Webster 1913 Edition


Lear

Lear

,
Verb.
T.
To learn. See
Lere
, to learn.
[Obs.]

Lear

,
Noun.
Lore; lesson.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Lear

,
Adj.
See
Leer
,
Adj.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Lear

,
Noun.
An annealing oven. See
Leer
,
Noun.

Definition 2024


Lear

Lear

See also: lear and léar

English

Proper noun

Lear

  1. A surname.
  2. name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear

Translations

lear

lear

See also: Lear and léar

English

Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

  1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
  2. (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.

Etymology 2

See lere.

Verb

lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)

  1. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
  2. (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.

Etymology 3

See lehr.

Noun

lear (plural lears)

  1. Alternative form of lehr

Anagrams


Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l̠ʲaɾˠ/

Noun

lear m (genitive singular lir)

  1. (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean

Derived terms

  • thar lear (overseas)

Volapük

Noun

lear (plural lears)

  1. olive tree

Declension