Definitions for Lear

Lear lear

Spelling: [leer]
IPA: /lɪər/

Lear is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in Lear (aelr).

Definitions for Lear

noun

  1. learning; instruction; lesson.
  2. Edward, 1812–88, English writer of humorous verse and landscape painter.
  3. (italics) King Lear.

Origin of Lear

1350-1400; late Middle English lere lesson, noun use of lere to teach, Old English lǣran; cognate with Dutch leren, German lehren, Gothic laisjan; akin to lore1<

Examples for Lear

King lear becomes lear texting “okay who wants a kingdom,” to which Goneril replies “me me I do.”

A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

If it were not the case, then there would be a Jonestown after every performance of King lear.

Coleridge calls "lear," "the open and ample playground of Nature's passions."

In Othello, in lear, and in Macbeth, he achieved instant success.

In "lear," Shakespeare was intent on expressing his own disillusion and naked misery.

Tolstoi, I am afraid, has missed all the poetry of lear, all the deathless phrases.

He used the lear—which seated only six and had no bar—mostly to shuttle his pals between Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas.

Lamb and Coleridge, on the other hand, have praised "lear" as a world's masterpiece.

But he loved showing off the lear as the party favor for a Hollywood that had everything.

Word Value for Lear
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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