gare

gare

See also: Gare, garé, garë, and gäre

English

Etymology

Compare gear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

gare (uncountable)

1. coarse wool on the legs of sheep
   • 1542, Statue on Wool, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     That no denyzen or foren make any refuse of wolles but cot gare & vyllayn

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Ager, GRAE, Gear, Gera, Rega, ager, areg, gear, rage

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

gare

1. Inflected form of gaar

Verb

gare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of garen

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French

Etymology

From garer (“to dock, park”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʁ/, /ɡɑʁ/

• audio (un gare)

  (file)

• Homophone: Gard

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. railway station

Derived terms

• gare ferroviaire
• gare routière

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: гара (gara)
• → Portuguese: gare
• → Romanian: gară
• → Turkish: gar
• → Vietnamese: ga

Verb

gare

1. inflection of garer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Interjection

gare

1. (transitive with à) beware (something)

   Gare au refroidissement !

   Synonym: attention

Derived terms

• sans crier gare

Further reading

• “gare”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• géra, rage, ragé

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

gare

1. inflection of garen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: gà‧re

Noun

gare f

1. plural of gara

Anagrams

• Rega, agre, egra, erga

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Middle English

Noun

gare

1. Alternative form of gor (“spear”)

Noun

gare

1. Alternative form of gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”)

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.re/

Noun

gāre

1. dative singular of gār

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French gare.

Noun

gare f (plural gares)

1. train station or platform

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Scots

Adjective

gare (comparative mair gare, superlative maist gare)

1. greedy; miserly