ware

From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: wâr, IPA^(key): /wɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: wear, we're, where (wine-whine merger)

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (poetic) Aware.

Replaced by intensified form aware.

• aware
• beware
• unware

ware (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.

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From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *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”) and Swedish vara, with the same meaning.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: wĕr, IPA^(key): /wɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

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.

• Biddery ware
• Corded Ware culture
• -ware

From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: wĕr, IPA^(key): /wɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: wear, where (wine-whine merger)

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.

   • c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː

     Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.

   • c. 1470, The Macro Playsː

     ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

   • 1987, Kangs in Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

     Ware cleaners.

2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

   Ware thee. ― Watch yourself.

ware (comparative more ware, superlative most ware)

1. (obsolete) Wary; cautious.
   • 1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar)​, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer]; Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Thyrde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latymer whyche He Preached before the Kynge [Edward VI], wythin Hys Graces Palayce at Westminster, the XXII. Daye of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, OCLC 12219849, folio 39, verso:

     He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Timothy 4:15:

     Of whom be thou ware also.

   • 1864, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England (page 385)

     Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.

• wary

• ward

From Middle English *wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

ware

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) Seaweed.

• ware goose

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

1. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

ware

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
   • c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise

     A larg concors ware standing round

• -wear, Awre, Wear, arew, wear

ware

1. imperfect subjunctive of wees

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːrə/

ware

1. Inflected form of waar

ware

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

• IPA^(key): /wáː.ɽèː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [wáː.ɽèː]

wārḕ (grade 4)

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

ware

1. Rōmaji transcription of われ

ware

1. ignorant

ware

1. saliva

From Old Dutch *wara, from Proto-Germanic *warō, probably related to *waraz (“wary, watchful”).

wāre f

1. merchandise, product

• Dutch: waar
• Limburgish: waar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wâre

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

• “ware (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ware (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

ware

1. Alternative form of veir

ware

1. Alternative form of werre

From Middle High German wërden, from Old High German werdan. Compare German werden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːrə/

ware

1. to become

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [wer], [war], [voːr]

ware (plural wares)

1. spring, springtime
2. cold weather in springtime

• spring

Ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire.

• IPA^(key): [weːr]

ware (plural wares)

1. a type of seaweed

• warebrak

ware

1. Alternative form of war (“were”)
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:

     Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.

     Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 84