stare

• enPR: stâr
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stɛɚ/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɛə/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /steː/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /steə/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /stiə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /steɹ/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /stɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: stair; steer (cheer–chair merger); stir (fair–fur merger)

From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.

Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

stare (third-person singular simple present stares, present participle staring, simple past and past participle stared)

1. (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare

   She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

     A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

2. (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.

   to stare a timid person into submission

3. (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

   staring windows or colours

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.

   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole Art of Husbandry, in the way of Managing and Improving of Land:

     Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.

• gaze, to stare intently or earnestly
• ogle, to stare covetously or amorously

stare (plural stares)

1. A persistent gaze.

   the stares of astonished passers-by

   • 1997, “Sex and Candy”, performed by Marcy Playground:

     Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?

From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”).

Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

stare (plural stares)

1. (now archaic) A starling. [from 9th c.]

   Synonyms: common starling, European starling

   • 1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 29:

     The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]

• stare decisis

• “stare”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, pages 5906–5907.

• teras, -aster, reast, earst, treas., taser, setar, TASer, aster-, arste, Stear, sater, stear, aster, tares, Satre, tarse, Sater, arets, tears, resat, rates, Aerts, Aters, Tesar, 'earts, Taser

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stare

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of staren

• Aster

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: stà‧re

stàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) stò, first-person singular past historic stétti or (traditional) stètti, past participle stàto, first-person singular future starò, first-person singular subjunctive stìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive stéssi, second-person singular imperative stài or stà', auxiliary èssere) (intransitive)

1. to stay, remain

   Synonyms: restare, rimanere

   stare attenti (a) ― to pay attention (to)

   (Lui/Lei/Egli/Ella/Esso/Essa) starà a casa. ― He/She/It will stay/remain at home.

2. to keep, stick [with a]

   Synonym: attenersi

3. (followed by a gerund) to be doing something (present continuous)

   (Io) sto andando. ― I am going.

   (Io) sto andando via/me ne sto andando. ― I am leaving.

4. to be up to [with a]

   Synonyms: toccare, spettare

   Sta a te decidere. ― It’s up to you to decide.

5. to be about to [with per]

   (Io) sto per andare via. ― I am about to leave.

6. (mathematics) 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") [with a]

   4 sta a 8 come 5 sta a 10. ― 4 is to 8 as 5 is to 10.

7. (regional) to live

   Synonyms: vivere, abitare

   Mia sorella sta a Roma. ― My sister lives in Rome.

8. to be in a certain condition

   Synonym: essere

   come stai (tu)?

   how are you?

   stare a dieta significa ridurre le calorie di ingresso e aumentarne il consumo con il movimento

   being on a diet entails reducing calorie intake and increasing calories burned through exercise

The second person imperative (sta') has univerbated compound forms:

• sta' + mi = stammi
• sta' + ti = statti
• sta' + gli = stagli
• sta' + le = stalle
• sta' + ci = stacci
• sta' + ne = stanne

Including lesser-used forms:

• Sabir: star
• → Esperanto: stari

• -astre, Tresa, estra-, resta, sarte, tersa

stāre

1. present active infinitive of stō

• IPA^(key): /ˈstarɛ/, [ˈstarə]

stare

1. inflection of stary:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• star

From Old Norse stari.

• IPA^(key): /²stɑːrə/

stare m (definite singular staren, indefinite plural starar, definite plural starane)

1. a starling (a songbird, Sturnus vulgaris)
2. (dialectal, Southern Norway) a thrush

• stær (Bokmål)

• “stare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.rɛ/

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• Rhymes: -arɛ
• Syllabification: sta‧re
• Homophone: Stare

stare

1. inflection of stary:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• старе (stare) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

From sta +‎ -re.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsta.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: sta‧re

stare f (plural stări)

1. status, standing, situation, position, condition
2. state

• în stare

• stat

• “stare”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

stare (Cyrillic spelling старе)

1. inflection of star:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

From Old Norse stari, from Proto-Germanic *staraz, from Proto-Indo-European *storo- (“starling”) or *(s)tern- (“starling”), same ultimate source as Old Prussian starnite (“gull”).

stare c

1. the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
2. any species of bird in the starling family Sturnidae

• stare in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stare in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• arets, etsar, raset, reats, retas, treas

From Latin stāre.

stare

1. (intransitive) to stay, remain
2. (intransitive) to be

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Present tense:- stoche, sté or stéje, sté or stéje, stáme, státe, stonne