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verbnoundeterminertop 100 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɛə//
  • United Kingdom//ɛː//
  • United States//ɛəɹ//
  • United States//ɛɹ//
  • //ə//
  • //ɑː//

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.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of besecond-person singular simple present of be

    Mary, where are you going?

  2. 2

    Also a form of befirst-person plural simple present of be

    We are not coming.

    Here we are!

  3. 3

    Also a form of besecond-person plural simple present of be

    Mary and John, are you listening?

  4. 4

    Also a form of bethird-person plural simple present of be

    They are here somewhere.

    BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.

  5. 5

    Also a form of bepresent of be

Etymology

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.

noun

  1. 1

    rareAn 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.

Etymology

From French are.

determiner

  1. 1

    Variant of ourMisspelling of our.

Etymology

From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).

Forms

plural
ares
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).