Noun: ware
Sample Sentences
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Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders. [1923, John Lord, Capital and steam-power, 1750–1800:]
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On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora. [2002 March 28, “Kenya National Assembly Official Record”, in parliamentary debates:]
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What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles. [2011, Tonya Kappes, Carpe Bead'em:]
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Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks. [2012, Julie Watson, Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, page 179:]
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damascene ware, tole ware
Nouns inflected like ware
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”). See: Middle English Nouns '
ware', Old English Nouns '
waru', Dutch Nouns '
waar', German Nouns '
Ware', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
vare', Faroese Nouns '
vøra', Swedish Nouns '
vara'.
Verbs referencing "ware"
Finnish Nouns
vara, Dutch Nouns
waar, Danish Nouns
vare.