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weare

weare is the obsolete spelling of wear.

weare is the obsolete spelling of were.

Meaning of wear

Verb

wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore or (obsolete) ware, past participle worn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore or (obsolete) worne)

  1. (transitive) To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc.
    • He's wearing some nice pants today.
  2. (transitive) To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
    • He wears eyeglasses.
  3. (transitive) To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
    • She wore a smile all day.
  4. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
    • You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.
  5. (copulative, intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
    • The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
  6. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
    • His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.

See all 20 meanings of wear

Meaning of were

Verb

were

  1. simple subjunctive of be
    • I wish that it were Sunday.

See all 2 meanings of were

Proper noun capitalized: Weare

Weare

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Meshech Weare.
  3. A township in Oceana County, Michigan, United States.
  4. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST4152).

Forms of weare

third-person singular presentweares
present participlewearing
pastwore
past participleworne

Questions about weare

What does weare mean?
Weare means a surname.
What is weare the obsolete spelling of?
Weare is the obsolete spelling of wear.
What part of speech is weare?
Weare is a proper noun.

Words near weare in the dictionary

  1. wearable computer
  2. wearable computers
  3. wearables
  4. Weardale
  5. Wearde
  6. weare
  7. weared
  8. wearer
  9. wearers
  10. wearest
  11. weareth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weare (page history and authors); Weare (page history and authors); wear (page history and authors); were (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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