lear
nounverbnounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈlɪə//
- United States//ˈlɪɹ//
- Australia//ˈliə//
- Scotland//ˈliːɹ//
- //ˈlɛː//
Something learned; a lesson.
noun
- 1
Something learned; a lesson.
- 2
Learning, lore; doctrine.
when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'
They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear.
Etymology
From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.
verb
- 1
archaicTo teach.
- 2
archaicTo learn.
Etymology
From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).
noun
- 1
Variant of lehrAlternative form of lehr.
Etymology
See lehr.
verb
- 1
Variant of learnDeliberate misspelling of learn
Better start learing
My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all.
"I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau.
I hope we all leared a valuable lesson today: California is corrupt beyond repair.
Etymology
A reference to the "Quality Learing Center", an allegedly fradulent Somali-American-run childcare center in Minneapolis, U.S., which closed in 2026.
Forms
- plural
- lears
- past tense
- leared
- past participle
- leared
- present participle
- learing
- third person singular
- lears