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ar

nouninterjectionparticleverbparticlecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɑː//
  • United States//ˈɑɹ//
  • Ireland//ˈaɹ//
  • Ireland//ˈäːɹ//
  • //ˈɑɹə//

The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

noun

  1. 1

    The name of the Latin script letter R/r.

    All the ars in the inscription.

    I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

    RV [is spoken] as "ar-vee" instead of "I SPELL Romeo Victor".

Etymology

From Middle English *ar, arres pl, from earlier *er.

interjection

  1. 1

    Variant of arrAlternative form of arr.

particle

  1. 1

    Variant of arrAlternative form of arr.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of areobsoleteObsolete spelling of are.

    But commonlie, the fairest bodies, ar bestowed on the foulest purposes.

particle

  1. 1

    Variant of ahAlternative form of ah (question particle).

Forms

plural
ars
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).