noun · countable / uncountable · rare

ware

ware · wares

товар, вироби, крам

товар

Ware

Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or useGoods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.

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UK/ˈwɛə/US/ˈwɛɹ/

» Peddle your wares elsewhere.

Meaning

7 senses

(in compounds, uncountable, usually)Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
(in the plural, uncountable, usually)See wares.
Ware
това́рtovár
това́рtovár, крамkram, ви́робиvýroby
(uncountable, usually)Pottery or metal goods.
damascene ware, tole ware
(countable, usually)A style or genre of artifact.
(Ireland, uncountable, usually)Crockery.
(Northern England, Scotland)Spring, springtime.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.

More definitions

articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’
items for sale to the individual consumer

Examples

14 sentences

Peddle your wares elsewhere.
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Peddle your wares somewhere else.
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Quickly we had sold all wares.
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Every salesman sings the praises of his wares.
deJeder Händler lobt seine Ware.
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He sells his wares at the weekly market.
deEr bietet seine Waren auf dem Wochenmarkt feil.
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Translations

7 languages

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Origin

From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Prot

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.

From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).

From Middle English ware, from Old Norse vár (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wazrą. Cognate with Icelandic vor (“spring”), Swedish vår (“spring”), Danish vår (“spring”), Scots ware, wair (“spring”).

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