Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present indicative of be.
- n. A metric unit of area equal to 100 square meters (119.6 square yards).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be. See be.
- n. In the metric system, a unit of superficial or square measure, containing 100 square meters, or 119.6 square yards. Its abbreviation is adjective
- n. The note immediately above the tonic, ut, in the grave hexachord of Guido d'Arezzo's musical scale.
- n. A suffix applied to the names of orders in the quantitative classification of igneous rocks proposed by Cross, Iddings, Pirsson, and Washington: as, canadare, columbare. See classification of igneous rocks, under rock.
Wiktionary
- v. Second-person singular simple present tense of Xyzy}}.
- v. First-person plural simple present tense of Xyzy}}.
- v. Second-person plural simple present tense of Xyzy}}.
- v. Third-person plural simple present tense of Xyzy}}.
- n. An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
GNU Webster's 1913
- The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to
be ; but etymologically a different word frombe , orwas .Am ,art ,are , andis , all come from the rootas . - n. The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square yards.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
Etymologies
- Middle English aren, from Old English aron; see er-1 in Indo-European roots.French, from Latin ārea, open space; see area.
Examples
“There _are_ situations in which religious organizations are better placed to serve a population than outside organizations.”
“The people who are furious that their tax rate might go up so that the undeserving poor won't die of the flu - these are just ugly, ugly horrible mean people, who are more interested in what other people * aren't* doing with their lives than they are in what they * are* doing with theirs.”
“They are not there for the money; they *are* there for the rep, the early connections.”
Obama to congressional Republicans: "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
“As a biologist, on the one hand I have no problem saying that there are real statistical differences between human males and human females in terms of anatomy/physiology/behavior (because there *are*) . . . but I also know how individual variation (on both sides of the gender line) is quite capable of completely trashing those averaged-out stats when one is dealing with *particular* men and women.”
“What are some more such myths assuming the aforesaid *are* myths, that is!”
“Of course I will have to read the book to see how Harris makes the claim the parents don't matter - from the simple perspective that parents *are* (well, some are) a "peer" (i.e. someone you interact with) you can see they will have some effect.”
Can Billions of Parents Be Wrong?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Rigorous moral standards are hard to follow precisely because they *are* rigorous.”
“For me, this means that the happiness provided by the system through security Canadians generally don't lose sleep about being wiped out by medical costs or losing insurance, and the happiness provided by knowing your fellow Canadians are covered as well *are* important drivers for my support even at the real cost of those needing medical care in the system.”
“He notes in Google's defence that Advertisers are generally making no claim that they *are* the trademark holder, they're just assuming that their message might be of interest to a user typing a query within a given universe of meaning.”
“These are the forces of Transnational Progressivism at work...and they in turn are the descendents of Communism who regrouped from that failure. and since the People rejected Communism..are trying to use mechanisms of Law and unaccountable NGOs staffed by Elites that bypass democratic institutions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘are’.
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 252 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Words that start with A
alphabet, alligator, ate, actual, annual, activity, analyze, ability, astronaut, add, ape, aches and 20 more...
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My first ever list. Ever.
Well, trust me for this list to be rubbish and nooby, ah well. Im starting. *Cuts ribbon*
archive, face, hate, retrogenuflexophobia, pessimist, cynical, tounge, aqua, nature, fox, pantha, plum and 7 more...
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recent
Friends, of, today, are, not, only, interested, molar, Whistles, armpit, stinks, spotted and 26 more...
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State-of-being verbs
Verbs that establish or connect to the status (condition, state of being, the way something is) of someone or something.
nuxiy Norwegian male name, most popular in the northern parts. Mar 28, 2009