stare

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to stay, remain
  2. (intransitive) to keep, stick
  3. (intransitive) to be doing something (present continuous)
  4. (intransitive) to be up to
  5. (intransitive) to be about to
  6. (intransitive) to be in relation to, to stand in relation to (in English idiom applicable to statements of analogy and/or of mathematical relationship: "to be to")
  7. (intransitive, regional) to live
  8. (intransitive) to be in a certain condition

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
stà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsta.re/
Etymology

From Latin stāre. Cognate with Spanish estar and English state.

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