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beare

beare is the obsolete form of bear.

Meaning of bear

Verb (1)

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past and past participle beared)

  1. (transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
    • to bear a railroad stock

Verb (2)

bear (third-person singular simple present bears, present participle bearing, simple past bore or (archaic) bare, past participle borne or (colloquial) bore or (see usage notes) born)

  1. (transitive) To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
    • They came bearing gifts.
    1. (transitive) To carry (weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with (weapons, etc.).
      • the right to bear arms
    2. (transitive) To wear (garments, pieces of jewellery, etc.).
      • The queen bore the royal scepter and crown as she processed into the hall.
    3. (intransitive, rare, transitive) To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).
      • The scan showed that the ewe was bearing twins.
    4. (transitive) To have or display (a mark or other feature).
      • She still bears the scars from a cycling accident.

See all 54 meanings of bear

Proper noun capitalized: Beare

Beare (plural Beares)

  1. A surname.

Forms of beare

Noun
pluralbeares
Proper noun
pluralBeares

Words formed from beare

Questions about beare

What does beare mean?
Beare means a surname.
What is beare the obsolete form of?
Beare is the obsolete form of bear.
What part of speech is beare?
Beare is a proper noun.

Words near beare in the dictionary

  1. Beardwood
  2. Beardwoods
  3. beardworm
  4. beardworms
  5. beardy
  6. beare
  7. Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
  8. beared
  9. bearen
  10. bearer
  11. bearer bond

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beare (page history and authors); Beare (page history and authors); bear (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.

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