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ware

[ wair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Usually wares.
1. articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods:
  a peddler selling his wares.
2. any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are saleable:
  an actor advertising his wares.
a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): -ware.
silverware;
glassware.
pottery, or a particular kind of pottery:
delft ware.
Archaeology. a group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color.

ware

[ wair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

watchful, wary, or cautious.
aware; conscious.

verb (used with object)

, wared, war·ing.

to beware of (usually used in the imperative).

ware

[ wair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, Scot. and North England.

, wared, war·ing.

to spend; expend.

ware

⁴

[ wair ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Scot. and North England.

the first season in the year; spring.

-ware

⁵

a combining form extracted from software, occurring as the final element in words that refer to a specified kind or class of software: ware ¹( def 2 ).
spyware;
shareware.

ware

/ wɛə /

verb

another word for beware

adjective

another word for wary wise 1

ware

/ wɛə /

noun

functioning as singular articles of the same kind or material
glassware
silverware
porcelain or pottery of a specified type
jasper ware
agateware

ware

/ wɛə /

verb

dialect.
tr to spend or squander

–ware

A suffix that means “software,” as in shareware.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ware¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English waru; cognate with German Ware

Origin of ware²

First recorded before 900; Middle English adjective; Old English adjective wær; cognate with German gewahr “aware,” Old Norse varr “aware”

Origin of ware³

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Old Norse verja “to spend, invest”

Origin of ware⁴

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old Norse vār “spring”; perhaps akin to Latin vēr, Greek éar “spring”; vernal

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ware¹

Old English wær; related to Old Saxon, Old High German giwar, Old Norse varr, Gothic war, Latin vereor. See aware , beware

Origin of ware²

Old English waru; related to Old Frisian were, Old Norse vara, Middle Dutch Ware

Origin of ware³

C15: of Scandinavian origin; related to Icelandic verja

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