pear

CEFRA2

/pɛə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A sweet fruit with a rounded bottom and narrow top.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

Examples

  • Lend me a knife with which to peel this pear.

  • This pear smells nice.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ˈpiːə(r)/
  • /ˈpiə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).

  2. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.

  3. Choke pear (a torture device).

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).