Lear

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Full definition of lear

Noun

1. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.
2. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii: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 ....
• 1898, Francis James Child (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy, from ,They dressed up in maids' array,And passd for sisters fair;With ae consent gaed ower the sea,For to seek after lear.

See lere

Verb

1. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To learn.
• 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale, from ,He hath take on him many a great emprise,Which were full hard for any that is hereTo bring about, but they of him it lear.

See lehr

Noun

1. Alternative form of lehr

Anagrams

• earl, Earl; lare; rale; real