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bare

Pronunciation: /bɛə/

The English word “bare” has 18 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  2. Naked, uncovered.
  3. Having no supplies.
  4. Having no decoration.
  5. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
  6. A lot or lots of.
  7. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  8. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  9. Mere; without embellishment.
  10. Threadbare, very worn.
  11. Not insured.

adverb

  1. Barely.
  2. Very; significantly.
  3. Without a condom.

noun

  1. The surface, the (bare) skin.
  2. Surface; body; substance.
  3. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

verb

  1. To uncover; to reveal.

Etymology

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber…

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