ware

See also: Ware, wãrẽ, warē, wäre, and -ware

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: wĕr, IPA(key): /wɛɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
  • Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Old English wær, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

Adjective

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

  1. (poetic) aware
Usage notes

Replaced by intensified form aware.

Derived terms

Noun

ware (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Old English waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *wer-, whence also ward. Cognate with Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use”).

Noun

ware (usually uncountable, plural wares)

  1. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
    • 1923, John Lord, Capital and steam-power, 1750-1800‎:
      Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.
    • 2002 March 28, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.
    • 2011, Tonya Kappes, Carpe Bead'em‎:
      What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.
    • 2012, Julie Watson, Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island‎, page 179:
      Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.
  2. (in the plural) See wares.
  3. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
    damascene ware, tole ware
  4. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
  5. (Ireland) Crockery
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), fromw Old English warian, from Proto-Germanic *warōną.

Verb

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
    • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
      Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
    • c1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː
      Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.
    • c1470, The Macro Playsː
      ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.
  2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
    Ware thee.
    (watch yourself)
Translations

Adjective

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

  1. (obsolete) wary; cautious
    • Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 15
      Of whom be thou ware also.
    • Latimer
      He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Old English war (“seaweed”). Cognate with Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

Noun

ware

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed
Derived terms

Etymology 5

Verb

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

  1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

Etymology 6

Verb

ware

  1. Old eye dialect spelling of were
    • 1800's, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise:
      A larg concors ware standing round

References

  1. ↑ “ware” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

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 ware in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Verb

ware

  1. Imperfect subjunctive form of wees

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʋaːrə/

Adjective

ware

  1. Inflected form of waar

Verb

ware

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of zijn
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waren

Hausa

Verb

wārḕ (grade 4)

  1. to separate things, to set things aside
  2. to secede

Japanese

Romanization

ware

  1. Rōmaji transcription of われ

Maori

Adjective

ware

  1. ignorant

Noun

ware

  1. saliva

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *warō.

Noun

wāre f

  1. merchandise, product
Inflection
Weak feminine
Singular Plural
Nominative wāre wāren
Accusative wāre wāren
Genitive wāren wāren
Dative wāre, wāren wāren
Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

wâre

  1. first-person and third-person singular past subjunctive of wēsen

Further reading

  • “ware (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “ware (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Noun

ware

  1. Alternative form of veir

Scots

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wer], [war], [voːr]

Noun

ware (plural wares)

  1. spring, springtime
  2. cold weather in springtime
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [weːr]

Noun

ware (plural wares)

  1. a type of seaweed
Derived terms
  • warebrak
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