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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

Lear young, lear fair, Little intermitting makes good friends.

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Stampoy, Pappity

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

From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Stampoy, Pappity

Didn't I lear you coming down de track all whistling and everything?

From De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts by Hurston, Zora Neale

The culprit passed a sleepless night in the intolerable agony of lear.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

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 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler