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cary

cary is the obsolete spelling of carry.

Meaning of carry

Verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

  1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
    • "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  2. (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
    • to carry the war from Greece into Asia
  3. (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
    • The builders are going to carry the chimney through the roof.
  4. (archaic, transitive) To move; to convey using force
    Synonyms:
    impel, conduct
  5. (transitive) To lead or guide.
    • Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet.c. 1596-1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 5, scene 5
  6. (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
    • The corner drugstore doesn’t carry his favorite brand of aspirin.
    Synonyms:
    have, keep, stock, supply

See all 40 meanings of carry

Proper noun capitalized: Cary

Cary

  1. A surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surnames.
    • "You'll laugh when I tell you my name. All I can say is, nobody consulted me."
      "Why, what's your name?" Laughing now as he stepped past her into the hall.
      "Cary," he told her. "After the actor. Only I've never managed to be quite so suave."1999, Ian Rankin, Dead Souls, →ISBN, page 246
  3. A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
    • "My sister gave it me,—my only sister, Cary. Would that your aunt Caroline had lived to see her niece!"1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The West Wind Blows”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 40
  4. A village in Algonquin Township, McHenry County and Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Putnam County, Indiana.
  6. A ghost town in Harrison Township, Miami County, Indiana.
  7. An unorganised township in Aroostook County, Maine.
  8. A town in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
  9. A town in Wake County, Chatham County and Durham County, North Carolina.
  10. A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
  11. A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

Forms of cary

third-person singular presentcaries
present participlecarying
past participlecaried
pastcaried

Words formed from cary

Words that rhyme with cary

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Questions about cary

What does cary mean?
Cary means a surname, a less common spelling of Carey.
What is cary the obsolete spelling of?
Cary is the obsolete spelling of carry.
What part of speech is cary?
Cary is a proper noun.

Words near cary in the dictionary

  1. Carwiles
  2. carwitchet
  3. carwitchets
  4. Carwoola
  5. Carwyn
  6. cary
  7. caryatic
  8. caryatid
  9. caryatidal
  10. caryatide
  11. caryatidean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cary (page history and authors); Cary (page history and authors); carry (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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