det
Meaning 1
Misspelling of our.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, US, alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
are
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ə/ weak form
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/ɑː/ strong form
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/aː/ strong form
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/ɐː/ strong form
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/ɚ/ weak form
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/ɑɹ/ strong form
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är strong form
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US: strong form Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/aɹ/ strong form
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/aɾ/ strong form
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/ɛə(ɹ)/ strong form
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/ɛː(ɹ)/ strong form
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/aʊɚ/ strong form
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/aʊə/ strong form
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)
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homophone: argh
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homophone: r
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homophone: our
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛː/
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General-American: âr
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General-American: /ɛəɹ/
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General-American: /ɛɹ/
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rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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homophone: air
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homophone: Ayr
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homophone: ere
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homophone: eyre
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homophone: heir
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homophone: err (one pronunciation)
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homophone: e'er
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CMU ARPABET: AA1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A village in Saaremaa, Saare County, Estonia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
Initialism of Arab Republic of Egypt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 4
An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of advance reader’s edition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
second-person singular simple present of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, present, second-person, singular
Examples
- Mary, where are you going?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
first-person plural simple present of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: first-person, form-of, plural, present
Examples
- We are not coming.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
second-person plural simple present of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural, present, second-person
Examples
- Mary and John, are you listening?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
third-person plural simple present of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural, present, third-person
Examples
- They are here somewhere.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
present of be
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: East, Midlands, Yorkshire, form-of, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ar
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: area unit, square measure
History
Etymology
From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).
Borrowed from Estonian Are.
From French are.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *arun? Old English earon Middle English aren English are From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse plural forms in er-, this displaced the alternative forms Old English sind and bēoþ. In the second person singular it displaced archaic art. Further etymology controversial: * The English forms, as well as the Old Swedish forms in ær-, could reflect Proto-Germanic preterite-present *ōr ~ *arum, from Proto-Indo-European *h3e-h3ór-h2e (“I have risen”, perfect). * Since they are not the expected outcomes of the Proto-Germanic forms of *wesaną (“to be”) in *iz-, they would have to be irregular alterations. For Seebold this explanation is still preferable as similar variants in other verbs are not uncommon.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ար (ar) — unit of area
- Azerbaijani: ar — unit of area
- Bashkir: ар (ar) — unit of area
- Bashkir: land area сутый (sutıy) — unit of area
- Catalan: àrea — unit of area
- Chinese Mandarin: 公畝 /公亩 (gōngmǔ) — unit of area
- Czech: ar — unit of area
- Danish: ar — unit of area
- Dutch: are — unit of area
- Estonian: aar — unit of area
- Finnish: aari — unit of area
- French: are — unit of area
- Galician: área — unit of area
- German: Ar — unit of area
- Greek: άρια (ária) — unit of area
- Hungarian: ár — unit of area
- Ingrian: sotka — unit of area
- Irish: ár — unit of area
- Italian: ara — unit of area
- Japanese: アール (āru) — unit of area
- Korean: 아르 (areu) — unit of area
- Northern Kurdish: ar — unit of area
- Latvian: ārs — unit of area
- Macedonian: ар (ar) — unit of area
- Norwegian Bokmål: ar — unit of area
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ar — unit of area
- Occitan: ara — unit of area
- Polish: ar — unit of area
- Portuguese: are — unit of area
- Romanian: ar — unit of area
- Russian: ар (ar) — unit of area
- Slovak: ár — unit of area
- Spanish: área — unit of area
- Swedish: ar — unit of area
- Tagalog: arya — unit of area
- Turkish: ar — unit of area
- Ottoman Turkish: آر — unit of area
- Uyghur: ئار (ar) — unit of area
- Vietnamese: a — unit of area