wares

See also: Wares

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɛəz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɛɹz/

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• Homophones: wears, warez, where's (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z

Noun

wares

1. plural of ware

Noun

wares pl (plural only)

1. Goods or services that are for sale.

   The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.

   • 2011 October 26, “Report of the Interdepartmental Working Committee on Mortgage Arrears”, in Dáil Éireann:

     I call on the Minister to ensure good regulation is applied to moneylenders and so-called independent money advisers, many of whom are former bankers peddling their wares

Hyponyms

• (goods for sale): merchandise, products

Translations

goods for sale

• Bashkir: тауар (tawar)
• Esperanto: komercaĵo
• Greek:

  Ancient: φορτία n pl (phortía)

• Icelandic: vörur (is) f pl, varningur (is) m
• Ido: vari (io)
• Latin: merx (la) f
• Latvian: prece (lv) f
• Plautdietsch: Woa f
• Romanian: marfe f pl
• Russian: това́р (ru) (továr)
• Scottish Gaelic: bathar m
• Spanish: mercancías (es) f pl
• Ukrainian: крам (kram), това́р (uk) (továr)
• Yiddish: סחורה f (skhoyre)

See also

• warez

Anagrams

• Rawes, sewar, wears, sware, resaw, swear, sawer