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ware

Pronunciation: /ˈwɛə/

The English word “ware” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  2. See wares.
  3. Pottery or metal goods.
  4. A style or genre of artifact.
  5. Crockery.
  6. Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
  7. Spring, springtime.

adjective

  1. Aware.
  2. Wary; cautious.

verb

  1. To be ware or mindful of something.
  2. To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
  3. Old eye dialect spelling of were.

Etymology

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”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”),…

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