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lear en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
/ˈliːɹ/ (Scotland)
/ˈlɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
/ˈlɪɹ/ (General-American)
/ˈlɪə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈliə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
Etymology
From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.
Meanings
(Scotland, countable, uncountable) Something learned; a lesson.
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 [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
They dressed up in maids' array,
And passd for sisters fair;
With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
For to seek after lear. 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads:
'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.' 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100:
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lear en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
/ˈliːɹ/ (Scotland)
/ˈlɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
/ˈlɪɹ/ (General-American)
/ˈlɪə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈliə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
Etymology
From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).
Better start learing 2025 December 30, Mehoyer, “YTD. Little bit worried if I can sustain this in the future...”, in r/Salary (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
I hope we all leared a valuable lesson today: California is corrupt beyond repair. 2026 May 26, @OldeWorldOrder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
"I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau. 2026 March 30, @GBNT1952, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all. 2026 March 28, @TheDamaniFelder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026: