Definitions for rares

rares rare

Spelling: [rair]
IPA: /rɛər/

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

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in rares (aerrs).

Definitions for rares

adjective

  1. coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:
  2. thinly distributed over an area; few and widely separated:
  3. having the component parts not closely compacted together; not dense:
  4. unusually great:
  5. unusually excellent; admirable; fine:
  6. (of meat) cooked just slightly:

verb (used without object)

  1. rear2 (def 6).

Origin of rares

1350-1400; Middle English Latin rārus loose, wide apart, thin, infrequent

Examples for rares

What sets him apart from so many of his contemporaries was his rare immunity from the influence of prevailing ideas.

The problem, though, is that this advice presumes that death threats are rare and abnormal.

Yet he was a rare man, such as few meet with in the course of a lifetime.

Mary was standing rigid now, and the rare color flamed in her cheeks.

Kisses were rare in the staid little household to which she belonged.

Sidney was experiencing the rare treat of after-dinner coffee.

In his fight with Cloten he is depicted as a rare swordsman of wonderful magnanimity.

By the time it concluded with a sing-a-long of “XO,” Beyoncé had done the rare thing.

It was a rare moment of bipartisan unity in partisan Washington.

Such statements are rare, as the Guards routinely avoid going public with news about the demise of one of their commanders.

Word Value for rares
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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