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

Morones grunted, "He went out to get acquainted with the country and didn't come back." lear masked his close scrutiny of the factor under his idle and expressionless gaze.

From Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various

"Na," said Duncan, speaking in an accent much broader than the provincial dialect—"na, my faither was owre puir for giein me ony buke lear."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

But, if he hae the name o' gear, Ye'll fasten to him like a brier, Tho' hardly he, for sense or lear, Be better than the kye.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

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

In this braw age o' wit and lear, Will nane the Shepherd's whistle mair Blaw sweetly in its native air, And rural grace; And, wi' the far-fam'd Grecian, share A rival place?

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert