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rare
CEFRA2
/ɹeː/
adjective
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Not common or happening only sometimes.
- 02
adjective
Meat cooked so that the inside remains red.
Examples
It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
It is not rare for girls today to talk as if they were boys.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ɹiə/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsSmall in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
Thin; of low density.
Very uncommon; scarce.
More examples
In contextThere are only eleven of these rare animals left.
Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
Sees her reflection in a butcher shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair.
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Displaced native English geason (“rare, scarce”) (from Middle English gesen, from Old English gǣsne); and largely displaced Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden) and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne) hence modern English seld