US /lɪr/ UK /lɪə/
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noun verb

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    learning or lore; (dialect) to teach or learn

    The old shepherd passed his lear of the hills to his son.

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Synonyms
1 noun · learning or lore; (dialect)... learningloreknowledgeteachingdoctrine
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Related forms learnlorelearned

Etymology

From Old English lār ('learning, lore, teaching'), related to leornian ('to learn'), from Proto-Germanic *laizō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *leis- ('track, furrow').

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