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Lear

//lɪɹ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    The name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
  3. 3
    Clipping of Learjet. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

    "First-generation Lears are beasts to fly."

Noun
  1. 1
    Something learned; a lesson. Scotland, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative form of lehr. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    Learning, lore; doctrine. Scotland, countable, uncountable

    "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 [...]."

Verb
  1. 1
    To teach. Scotland, archaic, transitive
  2. 2
    To learn. archaic, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.

Etymology 2

From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).

Etymology 3

See lehr.

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