wares

See also: Wares

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɛəz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɛɹz/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /weːz/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /weəz/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /wiəz/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /weɹz/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /wɜː(ɹ)z/
• Homophones: wears, warez; where's (wine–whine merger); weirs (cheer–chair merger); whirs (wine–whine merger, fair–fur merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z

Noun

wares

1. plural of ware

Noun

wares pl (plural only)

1. Goods or services that are for sale.

   The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.

   • 2011 October 26, “Report of the Interdepartmental Working Committee on Mortgage Arrears”, in Dáil Éireann:

     I call on the Minister to ensure good regulation is applied to moneylenders and so-called independent money advisers, many of whom are former bankers peddling their wares

Hyponyms

• (goods for sale): merchandise, products

Translations

goods for sale

Bashkir: тауар (tawar) Esperanto: komercaĵo Greek: Ancient: φορτία n pl (phortía) Icelandic: vörur (is) f pl, varningur (is) m Ido: vari (io) Latin: merx (la) f Latvian: prece (lv) f Plautdietsch: Woa f Romanian: marfe f pl Russian: това́р (ru) (továr) Scottish Gaelic: bathar m Spanish: mercancías (es) f pl Ukrainian: крам (kram), това́р (uk) (továr) Yiddish: סחורה f (skhoyre)

See also

• warez

Anagrams

• Rawes, sewar, wears, sware, resaw, swear, sawer