ware

Meaning

Noun

1. (in-compounds, uncountable, usually) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
2. (in-plural, uncountable, usually) See wares.
3. (uncountable, usually) Pottery or metal goods.
4. (countable, usually) A style or genre of artifact.
5. (Ireland, uncountable, usually) Crockery.

Adj

Aware.

Verb

1. (dialectal, obsolete) To be ware or mindful of something.
2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

Adj

Wary; cautious.

Verb

Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”)

Verb

Old eye dialect spelling of were.

Verb

simple past of wear

Synonyms

commodity

merchandise

product

goods

utensil

article

wares

implement

instrument

squander

good

👍

tool

produce

item

beware

consume

article of commerce

waste

equipment

misspend

organ

pottery

preparation

receptacle

sort

species

specimen

stock

tableware

things

variety

vessel

vigilant

watchful

well-educated

witting

manufactured article

piddle away

brown ware

trade good

manufactured product

apparatus

appliance

brand

ceramics

character

cognizant

combinations

conscious

container

Translations

mercancía

waar

merce

marchandise

Ware

mercadoria

produit

fazenda

mercaderia

género

εμπόρευμα

handelswaar

mercanzia

denrée

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ware

Inherited from Old English: wær

Inherited from Old English: waru

Cognate with Dutch: waar

Cognate with Swedish: vara

In summary

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.
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”).

Sentences

The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware .