Meanings
are1
alternative dialectal obsolete aren · alternative dialectal obsolete arn · alternative obsolete ar
- first personpluralpresentfirst-person plural simple present of be
We are not coming.
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Here we are!
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain) - pluralpresentsecond personsecond-person plural simple present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
- pluralpresentthird personthird-person plural simple present of be
They are here somewhere.
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BEloued, beleeue not euery ſpirit, but trie the ſpirits, whether they are of God: becauſe many falſe prophets are gone out into the woꝛld.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 John 4:1 - EastMidlandsYorkshirepresentpresent of be
are2
plural ares
- rareAn accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
Synonyms: square decametre
are3
- UKUSmisspellingMisspelling of our.
Are4
- A village in Saaremaa, Saare County, Estonia.
ARE5
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Arab Republic of Egypt.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a.
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Origin
are · verb
- Proto-Germanic*arun?
- Old Englishearon
- Middle Englisharen
- Englishare
From Middle English aren, from Old English (Anglian) earun, earon (“are”, plural). Possibly reinforced by the Old Norse plural forms in er-, this displaced the alternative forms Old English sind and bēoþ. In the second person singular it displaced archaic art. Further etymology controversial: * The English forms, as well as the Old Swedish forms in ær-, could reflect Proto-Germanic preterite-present *ōr ~ *arum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃e-h₃ór-h₂e (“I have risen”, perfect). * Since they are not the expected outcomes of the Proto-Germanic forms of *wesaną (“to be”) in *iz-, they would have to be irregular alterations. For Seebold this explanation is still preferable as similar variants in other verbs are not uncommon.
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Full word history & related roots →are · noun
- Frenchare
- Englishare
From French are.
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Full word history & related roots →are · determiner
From the phonetic similarity between our and are in many English dialects (both /ɑː(ɹ)/).
Full word history & related roots →Are · proper noun
- EstonianAre
- EstonianAre
- EnglishAre
Borrowed from Estonian Are.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan àrea
- àreaunit of area
Chinese Mandarin 公畝 /公亩
- 公畝 /公亩 (gōngmǔ)unit of area
Czech ar
- arunit of area
Danish ar
- arunit of area
Dutch are
- areunit of area
Estonian aar
- aarunit of area
Finnish aari
- aariunit of area
French are
- areunit of area
German Ar
- Arunit of area
Greek άρια
- άρια (ária)unit of area
Hungarian ár
- árunit of area
Irish ár
- árunit of area
Italian ara
- araunit of area
Japanese アール
- アール (āru)unit of area
Korean 아르
- 아르 (areu)unit of area
Latvian ārs
- ārsunit of area
Norwegian Bokmål ar
- arunit of area
Polish ar
- arunit of area
Portuguese are
- areunit of area
Romanian ar
- arunit of area
Russian ар
- ар (ar)unit of area
Slovak ár
- árunit of area
Spanish área
- áreaunit of area
Swedish ar
- arunit of area
Tagalog arya
- aryaunit of area
Turkish ar
- arunit of area
Vietnamese a
- aunit of area
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with are
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
are. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/are
“are.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/are. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “are,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/are.
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