hare

CEFRC1

/hɛə/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An animal like a rabbit, with longer legs and ears.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The meat from this animal.

Examples

  • First, catch your hare, then cook him.

  • He is as mad as a March hare.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /heː/
  • /hiə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

  2. Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To move swiftly.

More examples

In context

  • The hare hid behind the tree.

  • a hare old man

  • Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasō ~ *haʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *hesô, from *haswaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂s-én-. Cognates See also West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Norwegian and Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”); also Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”) and Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”).