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speer

speer verb: to ask, to inquire.

Verb

speer (third-person singular simple present speers, present participle speering, simple past and past participle speered)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) to ask, to inquire
    • Afore lang days, I hope to see him here, / About his milkness and his cows to speer.1778, Alexander Ross, Helenore: Or, The Fortunate Shepherdess, page 87
    • "A town ca'd Glasgow!" echoed Andrew Fairservice. "Glasgow's a ceety, man.—And is't the way to Glasgow ye were speering if I ken'd?[…]"1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], Rob Roy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London...

Proper noun capitalized: Speer

Speer (plural Speers)

  1. A surname.
  2. A neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado.
  3. An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
  4. A railroad location in Laramie County, Wyoming.

speer meaning in Bengali

speer in Bengali

জিজ্ঞাসা করা, অনুসন্ধান করা

Forms of speer

Verb
third-person singular presentspeers
present participlespeering
past participlespeered
pastspeered
alternative formspear
alternative formsper
alternative formspere
alternative formspeir
alternative formspire
alternative formspyrr
Proper noun
pluralSpeers

Origin of speer

From Middle English spuren, from Old English spyrian, from Proto-Germanic *spurjaną. Cognate with German spüren, Danish spørge, Norwegian Bokmål spørre, Swedish spörja.

Words formed from speer

Questions about speer

What does speer mean?
Speer means to ask, to inquire.
What is speer in Bengali?
Speer in Bengali is জিজ্ঞাসা করা, অনুসন্ধান করা. See Speer meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is speer?
Speer can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of speer?
The past tense of speer is speered.

Words near speer in the dictionary

  1. Speelmans
  2. speels
  3. Speen
  4. Speenhamland
  5. Speenhamland system
  6. speer
  7. speered
  8. speering
  9. speerings
  10. speerit
  11. speerits

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: speer (page history and authors); Speer (page history and authors); speer (Bengali 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.

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