lear

Noun

lear (countable and uncountable, plural lears)

1. (Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
2. (Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
   • when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • 'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, archaic, transitive) To teach.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To learn.

Proper noun capitalized: Lear

UK/lɪə/US/lɪəɹ/

Lear

1. A surname.
2. The name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
3. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of Learjet.
   • First-generation Lears are beasts to fly.