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Yes. The word lear is a Scrabble US word. The word lear is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (7 found)

ARLE,EARL,LAER,LARE,LEAR,RALE,REAL,

3-letter words (6 found)

ALE,ARE,EAR,ERA,LAR,LEA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AE,AL,AR,EA,EL,ER,LA,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from lear according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of lear

lear elar laer aler ealr aelr lera elra lrea rlea erla rela lare alre lrae rlae arle rale earl aerl eral real arel rael

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Definitions and meaning of lear

lear

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /lɪɹ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɪə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.

Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

  1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
  2. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.

Etymology 2

From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”). Doublet of learn (Etymology 2).

Verb

lear (third-person singular simple present lears, present participle learing, simple past and past participle leared)

  1. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To learn.
    • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from The Canterbury Tales,
      He hath take on him many a great emprise,
      Which were full hard for any that is here
      To bring about, but they of him it lear.

Etymology 3

See lehr.

Noun

lear (plural lears)

  1. Alternative form of lehr

Anagrams

  • Arel, Earl, Elar, Lare, Rael, Raël, Real, earl, lare, rale, real

Galician

Alternative forms

  • liar

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese liar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately from Latin ligāre, present active infinitive of ligō. Compare Spanish liar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈaɾ/

Verb

lear (first-person singular present leo, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado)
lear (first-person singular present leio, first-person singular preterite leei, past participle leado, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive) to wrap, coil
    Synonym: envurullar
  2. (transitive) to link
    Synonym: ligar
  3. (transitive) to entangle
    Synonyms: enlear, enredar
  4. (transitive) to roll (a cigarette)
  5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to wrestle, fight
    Synonyms: enlear, loitar, rifar, punar, barallar, desortir

Conjugation

Related terms

References

  • “liar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “liar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “lear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “lear” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “lear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “lear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l̠ʲaɾˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ler, from Proto-Celtic *liros. Cognate with Welsh llŷr.

Noun

lear m (genitive singular lir)

  1. (literary or archaic, except in phrases) sea, ocean
Derived terms
  • thar lear (“overseas”)

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ler”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 426
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Noun

lear m (genitive singular lear, nominative plural learanna)

  1. (mental) defect

Further reading

  • Entries containing “lear” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81

Volapük

Noun

lear (nominative plural lears)

  1. olive tree

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English lere, from Old English *lǣre, gelǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *lāʀi, *lāʀī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liː/

Adjective

lear

  1. empty

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 52

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