Ware (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. Usually wares .
    • articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods: a peddler selling his wares.
    • any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or intellectual creativity, that are salable: an actor advertising his wares.
  2. a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): silverware;glassware.
  3. pottery, or a particular kind of pottery: delft ware.
  4. a group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color.
adjective
  1. watchful, wary, or cautious.
  2. aware; conscious.
verb (used with object), wared, war·ing.
  1. to beware of (usually used in the imperative).
verb (used with object), wared, war·ing.Scot. and North England.
  1. to spend; expend.
noun Scot. and North England.
  1. the first season in the year; spring.
  1. a combining form extracted from software, occurring as the final element in words that refer to a specified kind or class of software: spyware;shareware.
noun (often in combination)
  1. articles of the same kind or material
  2. porcelain or pottery of a specified type
verb
  1. another word for beware
adjective
  1. another word for wary, wise 1
verb
  1. to spend or squander
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