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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: wares /wɛəz/ pl n - articles of manufacture considered as being for sale
- any talent or asset regarded as a commercial or saleable commodity
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ware1 /wɛr/USA pronunciation n. - Usually, wares. [plural] merchandise;
goods:a peddler selling his wares in the market. - a particular kind of merchandise:[uncountable]glassware.
- Ceramics pottery:[uncountable]delft ware.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ware1 (wâr),USA pronunciation n. - Usually, wares.
- articles of merchandise or manufacture;
goods:a peddler selling his wares. - any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable:an actor advertising his wares.
- a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination):silverware; glassware.
- Ceramicspottery, or a particular kind of pottery:delft ware.
- Archaeology, Ceramicsa group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English waru; cognate with German Ware
ware2 (wâr),USA pronunciation adj., v., wared, war•ing. [Archaic.]adj. - watchful, wary, or cautious.
- aware;
conscious. v.t. - to beware of (usually used in the imperative).
- bef. 900; Middle English (adjective, adjectival and verb, verbal); Old English wær (adjective, adjectival); cognate with German gewahr aware, Old Norse varr
ware3 (wâr),USA pronunciation v.t., wared, war•ing. [Scot. and North Eng.]- to spend;
expend.
- Old Norse verja to spend, invest
- Middle English 1300–50
ware4 (wâr),USA pronunciation n. [Scot. and North Eng.]- the first season in the year;
spring.
- Old Norse vār spring; perh. akin to Latin vēr (see vernal), Greek éar spring
- Middle English 1250–1300
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