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See also: Lear, le-ar, and léar

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.

Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

  1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
  2. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      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 [...].
    • 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100:
      '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.'
    • 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, 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

From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).

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.

Etymology 3

See lehr.

Noun

lear (plural lears)

  1. Alternative form of lehr.

Anagrams

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ligāre. Compare Spanish liar.

Pronunciation

Verb

lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado)
lear (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, coil
    Synonym: envurullar
  2. (transitive) to link
    Synonym: ligar
  3. (transitive) to entangle
    Synonyms: enlear, enredar
  4. (transitive) to roll (a cigarette)
  5. (pronominal) to wrestle, fight
    Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

Conjugation

    Conjugation of lear
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    Reintegrated conjugation of lear (e may become ei when stressed) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)
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1Less recommended.

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