are

Etymology 1
From, from , , reinforced by 🇨🇬 plural forms in (displacing alternative 🇨🇬 and ), from , from  (a form of ), from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬. More at.

Pronunciation

 * Stressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
 * Unstressed
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 * Unstressed



Usage notes

 * The pronunciation /aʊɚ/ arising from confusion of "are" and "our" is rare, however it results as the latter can be elided into /ɑɹ/ in quick speech.

Synonyms

 * art (used with thou)

Etymology 2
From.

Pronunciation

 * , err ; e'er (US)
 * , err ; e'er (US)
 * , err ; e'er (US)
 * , err ; e'er (US)

Noun

 * 1)   An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.

Usage notes

 * Are is now rarely used except in its derivative.

Synonyms

 * square decametre

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: ар; сутый
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: sotka
 * Irish: ár
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: ārs
 * Macedonian: ар
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: ar
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: آر
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: ár
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: arya
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 3
From the phonetic similarity between and  in many English dialects (both ).

Usage notes
Sometimes used deliberately as a form of classist humour, as a mocking imitation of a person with little education.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) rake

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * , a unit of surface area

Etymology
Learned formation from, a piece of level ground. .

Noun

 * 1) an are

Etymology
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * : an SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent.

Etymology 1
Variant of.

Noun

 * 1) long, large sickle

Noun

 * 1) warmth, heat

Etymology 1
Perhaps from a or  verb.

Verb

 * 1)  to suit, fit

Noun

 * 1)  white-tailed eagle

Noun

 * 1) honor, glory, grace

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) ear

Descendants

 * Föhr:
 * Hallig, Mooring:
 * Helgoland:
 * Helgoland:

Etymology
.

Interjection

 * 1) wow, whoa
 * 2) yay

Noun

 * 1)   unit of area

Etymology
Cf. 🇨🇬, . Compare 🇨🇬. See also 🇨🇬, used in a periphrastic construction of the conditional.

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  grace; mercy

Pronoun

 * : this one; this

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  foot, leg

Verb

 * 1)  to scratch

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) ant

Noun

 * 1) stop, especially a bus stop

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) that (person or object)
 * 1) that (person or object)

Noun

 * 1) vindication, justification; justice
 * 2) excuse, pardon

Etymology 2
From the same root as, , and , see

Noun

 * 1) miserableness; the state of being miserable and aimless