lear

plural lears

1. ScotlandcountableuncountableSomething learned; a lesson.
2. ScotlandcountableuncountableLearning, lore; doctrine.

   They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear.

   1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads

   2 more examples

   when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly person.'

   1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 3, page 100

present singular third person lears · participle present learing · participle past leared · past leared

1. ScotlandarchaictransitiveTo teach.
2. archaicintransitiveTo learn.

plural lears

1. alternativeAlternative form of lehr.

present singular third person lears · participle present learing · participle past leared · past leared

1. InternetdeliberatemisspellingDeliberate misspelling of learn

   Better start learing

   2025 December 30, Mehoyer, “YTD. Little bit worried if I can sustain this in the future...”, in r/Salary (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026

   3 more examples

   My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all.

   2026 March 28, @TheDamaniFelder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026

   "I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau.

   2026 March 30, @GBNT1952, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026

   I hope we all leared a valuable lesson today: California is corrupt beyond repair.

   2026 May 26, @OldeWorldOrder, X (post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026

1. A surname.
2. The name of a legendary early king of Britain, the central character in Shakespeare's King Lear.
3. abbreviationclippingaeronauticsClipping of Learjet.

   First-generation Lears are beasts to fly.