bare

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not covered by clothes; naked.

   She walked across the cold floor with bare feet.

2. 2
   adj

   Not covered by its usual covering, such as leaves, plants, or decoration.

   The trees were bare by the end of autumn.

3. 3
   adj

   Empty; with nothing extra added.

   The new apartment had bare walls and no furniture.

4. 4
   adj

   Only just enough; the smallest possible amount.

   They won by a bare majority of two votes.

5. 5
   verb

   To uncover something and show it.

   The dog bared its teeth and growled.

Common collocations

• bare legs Adjective + noun
• bare wall Adjective + noun
• bare rock Adjective + noun
• bare tree Adjective + noun

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

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