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4-letter words (4 found)

EARN,NARE,NEAR,REAN,

3-letter words (9 found)

ANE,ARE,EAN,EAR,ERA,ERN,NAE,RAN,REN,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AN,AR,EA,EN,ER,NA,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from earn according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of earn

earn

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ernen, from Old English earnian, from Proto-West Germanic *aʀanōn, from Proto-Germanic *azanōną. This verb is denominal from the noun *azaniz (harvest).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ûrn, IPA(key): /ɜːn/
  • (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA(key): /ɝn/
  • (Early Modern) IPA(key): /ɛːrn/, /ɛrn/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
  • Homophones: ern, erne, urn

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt)

  1. (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
  2. (transitive) To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).
  3. (intransitive) To receive payment for work.
  4. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
  5. (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.
Usage notes

The verb has senses of "get because deserving" and "get whether deserving or not", but because to many ears it connotes the former meaning, writers and speakers sometimes resist using it for the latter meaning, choosing instead synonyms such as get, take in, or rake in.

Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win
  • ((transitive) receive payment for work): get, take in, rake in
  • ((intransitive) receive payment for work): rake it in
  • (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Probably either:

  • from Middle English erne, ernen (to coagulate, congeal) (chiefly South Midlands)  [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (to run; to coagulate, congeal), from Old English rinnan (to run) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (to move, stir; to rise, spring); or
  • a back-formation from earning ((Britain regional, archaic) rennet).

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (British, dialectal)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
    Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.

Etymology 3

A variant of yearn.

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.

Etymology 4

Noun

earn (plural earns)

  1. Alternative form of erne

References

Anagrams

  • nare, rean, Near, eRNA, Rane, near, Arne, Nera, erna

Middle English

Noun

earn

  1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of ern (eagle)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *arō. The final /n/ is intrusive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æ͜ɑrn/, [æ͜ɑrˠn]

Noun

earn m

  1. eagle

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: ern, arn, aryn, eerne, eren, erne, eron, ærn, earn (Early Middle English)
    • English: erne
    • Scots: earn, ern, erne

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-West Germanic *arō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪə̯n/

Noun

earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje)

  1. eagle
  2. (figuratively) miser

Further reading

  • “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Source: wiktionary.org