Definition of WARE

ware

Meanings

Plural: wares

Noun

  • articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software'
  • commodities offered for sale
  • Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
  • See wares.
  • Pottery or metal goods.
  • A style or genre of artifact.
  • Crockery.
  • Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.
  • Spring, springtime.

Verb

  • spend extravagantly
  • To be ware or mindful of something.
  • To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
  • Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)
  • Old eye dialect spelling of were.
  • simple past of wear

Adj

  • Aware.
  • Wary; cautious.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward. Cognate with Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use”) and Swedish vara, with the same meaning.

Scrabble Score: 7

ware is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
ware is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ware is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

ware is a valid Words With Friends word