Definition/Meaning of wear

• English - Verb: wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore or (obsolete) ware, past participle worn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore or (obsolete) worne) (transitive) To have on : To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing , equipment , decoration , perfume , etc. Please wear your seatbelt. She wore her medals with pride.…
• English - Noun: wear (uncountable) (in compounds, uncountable) Clothing . foot wear ; outdoor wear ; maternity wear (uncountable) Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time. 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, pages 114–115: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to…
• English - Anagrams: ware
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Inherited from Middle English weren , 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)”). Compare weary . Cognate to Sanskrit वस्ते (váste), Ancient Greek ἕννυμι (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”)…
• English - Pronunciation: (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /wɛə/ (British, Southern, Standard) IPA: /wɛː/ (General American) IPA: /wɛ(ə)ɹ/ , [wɛɚ] , [wɛɹ] (Australia) IPA: /weː/ (New Zealand) IPA: /weə/ IPA: /wiə/ , /wɜː(ɹ)/ , /wɪja(r)/ (Scotland) IPA: /weɾ/ Homophone: ware Homophone: where (wine–whine merger) Homophone: weir Homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger) Homophone: were Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)