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Wear

/wɛə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo have on:

verbTo have on:, To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc.

Sentence Examples

What size shoes do you wear?

Young people wear their hair long these days.

Wear clothes that provide adequate protection against the wind and rain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

bear clothing

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

In extremely cold weather, people usually ____ warm coats to stay comfortable.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Please make sure that you ____ a warm coat if you are going for a walk in the park today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wes- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti Proto-Germanic *wazjaną Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan Old English werian Middle English weren English wear Inherited from Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”). Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian զգենում (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite 𒉿𒀸- (waš-). Originally a weak verb (i.e. with a past tense in -ed), it became irregular during the Middle English period by analogy with verbs like beren (whence bear) and teren (whence tear).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"He ware upon his head a diademe of purple interpaled with white, like as Darius was accustomed." — 1553, John Brende, Historie of Quintus Curcius:

"Over all this, hee ware a certeyne Mantell of like ſtuffe, made in ſuche maner, that coming vnder his righte arme, and covering moſte ꝑte [parte] of that ſyde, yt tuched not the lefte ſyde, […]" — Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, pages 23–24

"And Countrimen my louing follovvers, / Plead my ſucceſſiue Title vvith your ſvvords: / I am his firſt borne ſonne, that vvas the laſt / That vvare the Imperiall Diademe of Rome, / Then let my Fathers honours liue in me, / Nor vvrong mine age vvith this indignitie, […]" — c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A3, recto:

"It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar." — 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

"‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’" — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

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