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wyre

wyre is the obsolete spelling of wire.

Meaning of wire

Noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

  1. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
    • Holonyms: cable; wire rope; wiring harness; wire wool
    Synonyms:
    cable, steel wire, thread
  2. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
  3. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
    • That wire powers the lamp.
    Synonyms:
    conducting wire
  4. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
    Synonyms:
    barbed wire
  5. A finish line of a racetrack.
  6. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
    • The episode began by a telephone ring in the morning and the voice of Algernon Mailey at the far end of the wire.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

See all 28 meanings of wire

Proper noun capitalized: Wyre

Wyre

  1. A river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
  2. A local government district with borough status in Lancashire, which is named after the river.

Forms of wyre

pluralwyres

Words formed from wyre

Questions about wyre

What does wyre mean?
Wyre means a river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the Irish Sea at Fleetwood.
What is wyre the obsolete spelling of?
Wyre is the obsolete spelling of wire.
What part of speech is wyre?
Wyre is a proper noun.

Words near wyre in the dictionary

  1. wypipo
  2. Wyrallah
  3. wyrd
  4. wyrd folk
  5. wyrds
  6. wyre
  7. Wyre Forest
  8. Wyre Piddle
  9. wyres
  10. Wyrick
  11. Wyricks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wyre (page history and authors); Wyre (page history and authors); wire (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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