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stare¹

  • /stɛɚ/ US
  • /stɛə/ UK
  • /stɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /steː/ Australia
  • /steə/ New Zealand
  • /stiə/
  • /steɾ/ Scotland
  • /stɜː(ɹ)/

Sounds like stair, steer (cheer–chair merger), stir (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.

Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

verb stares · staring · stared

  1. intransitive To look fixedly (at something). She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.
  2. transitive To influence in some way by looking fixedly. to stare a timid person into submission
  3. intransitive To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. staring windows or colours
  4. intransitive, obsolete To stand out; to project; to bristle. Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.

Similar: gaw, gloar, glom, stare

noun stares

  1. A persistent gaze. the stares of astonished passers-by

stare²

  • /stɛɚ/ US
  • /stɛə/ UK
  • /stɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /steː/ Australia
  • /steə/ New Zealand
  • /stiə/
  • /steɾ/ Scotland
  • /stɜː(ɹ)/

Sounds like stair, steer (cheer–chair merger), stir (fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”).

Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

noun stares

  1. archaic A starling. The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]

Stare³

  • /stɛə(ɹ)/

proper noun

  1. Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002), American nutritionist
  2. Ward Stare (born 1982), American conductor

Stare⁴

  • /ˈstaɹeɪ/
  • /stəˈɹeɪ/

Sounds like Staré

Where it comes from

From Polish Stare and Ukrainian Старе́ (Staré), both neuter substantives of adjectives — Polish stary and Ukrainian стари́й (starýj) — meaning “old”, both of which ultimately descend from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Compare Staroye.

proper noun

  1. A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  2. A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  3. A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  4. A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
  5. A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
  6. A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
  7. A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.

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