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• lear
  lear

  noun

  learning; instruction; lesson.
• Lear
  Lear

  noun

  Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.

lear

¹ American  

[leer] / lɪər /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. learning; instruction; lesson.

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Lear ² American  

[leer] / lɪər /

noun

1. Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.

2. (italics) King Lear.

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Lear British  

/ lɪə /

noun

1. Edward. 1812–88, English humorist and painter, noted for his illustrated nonsense poems and limericks

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Etymology

Origin of lear

1350–1400; late Middle English lere lesson, noun use of lere to teach, Old English lǣran; cognate with Dutch leren, German lehren, Gothic laisjan; akin to lore ¹

Example Sentences

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lear Lear

He had a sort of dark down look about him, and a lear out of the corner of one eye, like a horse that's goin to kick.

From The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

"But now *no force,* for well I see *no matter* What thou desirest for to lear."

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

Now Dickie of Dryhope led that band, And the nevir a word o’ lear had he.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

Quhen the Play is best, it is best to lear.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy

But aiblins honest Master Heron, Had at the time some dainty fair one, To ware his theologic care on, And holy study; And tir’d o’ sauls to waste his lear on E’en tried the body.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Evans, from Hendy, Carmarthenshire, was awarded the inaugural Outstanding Contribution to Craft award after working on a range of productions including Game of Thrones, King Lear and The Danish Girl.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Walker, who was starring on the groundbreaking Norman Lear hit comedy “Good Times,” caught his act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Palantir’s stock trades at 108 times forward earnings expectations, compared with 63 times expected earnings for Centrus Energy, about 14 times for Lennar and about 8 times for Lear, according to FactSet.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

It was TV as Rorschach test, where some viewers interpreted Archie as the hero and Mike as the fool, while others understood that Lear was on Mike’s side of every argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

In the late 1960s, the screenwriter Norman Lear produced a television sitcom pilot for a show called All in the Family.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell