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Stare

//stɛɚ// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname; Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
  2. 2
    A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  3. 3
    A surname; Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor
  4. 4
    A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  5. 5
    A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
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  1. 6
    A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
  2. 7
    A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
  3. 8
    A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
  4. 9
    A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.
Noun
  1. 1
    A persistent gaze.

    "the stares of astonished passers-by"

  2. 2
    A starling. archaic

    "The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]"

  3. 3
    a fixed look with eyes open wide wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To look fixedly (at something). intransitive

    "She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her."

  2. 2
    fixate one's eyes wordnet
  3. 3
    To influence in some way by looking fixedly. transitive

    "to stare a timid person into submission"

  4. 4
    look at with fixed eyes wordnet
  5. 5
    To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. intransitive

    "staring windows or colours"

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  1. 6
    To stand out; to project; to bristle. intransitive, obsolete

    "Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-. Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Etymology 2

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-. Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

Etymology 3

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”). Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

Etymology 4

From Polish Stare and Ukrainian Старе́ (Staré), both neuter substantives of adjectives — Polish stary and Ukrainian стари́й (starýj) — meaning “old”, both of which ultimately descend from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Compare Staroye.

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