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a suffix that forms nouns denoting a person characterized by or occupied with that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from French: concessionaire; doctrinaire; legionnaire; millionaire.

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Origin of -aire

<French <Latin -ārius-ary, a learned doublet of the French suffix -ier-eer, -ier²

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How to use -aire in a sentence

Like the corresponding French nouns in -eur, these nouns in -aire, as well as those in -èire, are also used as adjectives.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
Two miles further down, on the west side, the Ouse receives another important feeder in the Aire.
The Rivers of Great Britain: Rivers of the East Coast|Various
The houses look on to a strip of uneven green, cut in two, lengthways, by the Aire.
Yorkshire Painted And Described|Gordon Home
At the base of the perpendicular face of the cliff the Aire flows from a very slightly arched recess in the rock.
Yorkshire Painted And Described|Gordon Home

Yaas—day follar de wagon, dey aire leave dar pony-track all roun you.
John Ermine of the Yellowstone|Frederic Remington

British Dictionary definitions for -aire

Aire

/ (ɛə) /

noun

a river in N England rising in the Pennines and flowing southeast to the Ouse. Length: 112 km (70 miles)

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