share

Meaning

Noun

1. A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
2. A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
3. A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
4. The action of sharing something with other people via social media.
5. The sharebone or pubis.

Verb

1. To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2. To have or use in common.
3. To divide and distribute.
4. To tell to another.
5. (Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

Verb

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

Synonyms

portion

divide

part

distribute

stock

participate

quota

apportion

allotment

separate

partake

allot

lot

interest

ration

division

contribution

ploughshare

piece

divide up

deal

plowshare

section

take part

dispense

split

Parthian

sharing

give

cut

serving

allocate

percentage

%

divvy up

partition

divide into parts

allowance

parcel

holding

helping

deal out

cooperate

equity

dividend

assign

end

🔚

portion out

stake

pass out

agree

Translations

partager

teilen

part

action

condividere

azione

Anteil

diviser

Aktie

aandeel

acción

compartir

delen

compartilhar

dividere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɛə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: schare

Inherited from Old English: sċearu

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: skar

Cognate with Dutch: schare

Cognate with German: Schar

Cognate with Icelandic: skor

Inherited from Middle English: share

Inherited from Old English: sċear

Cognate with Dutch: schaar

Cognate with Danish: plovskær

In summary

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

Sentences

Both Saint Matthew's and Saint John's share the same Church of England vicar .