name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wark
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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Received-Pronunciation: /wɔːk/
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General-American: /wɔɹk/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)k
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CMU ARPABET: W AO1 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A village and civil parish in mid Northumberland, England, otherwise known as Wark on Tyne (OS grid ref NY8677).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A small village in Carham parish, north Northumberland, otherwise known as Wark on Tweed (OS grid ref NT8238).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Pain; ache.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: agony, pang, misery, pain, wark
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: labour, effort, exertion, pains, wark, work
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A building.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edifice, building, wark
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To be in pain; ache.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hurt, suffer, ache, agonize, anguish, pain, passion, thole, throe, wark, wring
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.
See work.
From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.