Word.ws English Dictionary

astare

/əˈstɛɚ/

astare adverb: staring; amazed.

Adverb

astare (not comparable)

  1. Staring; amazed.
    • One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, / Stood stupefied,1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, in Men and Women, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 140
    • passing the long college all astare with windows1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 125

astare meaning in Tamil

astare in Tamil

உறுத்துநோக்கிய நிலையான, திடும் என

Examples of astare in a sentence

  • A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 27:
  • […] the Man of the House and his wife greeted us, their children astare with wondering eyes.1968, Austin Clarke, chapter 19, in A Penny in the Clouds, Dublin: Moytura Press, published 1990, page 151:

Origin of astare

From a- + stare.

Words that rhyme with astare

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about astare

What does astare mean?
Astare means staring; amazed.
What is astare in Tamil?
Astare in Tamil is உறுத்துநோக்கிய நிலையான, திடும் என. See Astare meaning in Tamil.
How do you use astare in a sentence?
A flashlight: Hugh Barton and his bride limply astare—frightened;
What part of speech is astare?
Astare is an adverb.
How do you pronounce astare?
Astare is pronounced /əˈstɛɚ/.

Words near astare in the dictionary

  1. astanga
  2. astangas
  3. astar
  4. Astaracian
  5. astarboard
  6. astare
  7. Astarionmance
  8. Astarionmancer
  9. Astarot
  10. Astaroth
  11. astart

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: astare (page history and authors); astare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “astare.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/astare. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.