Added 9 October 2026
bare
/bɛə/ verb
In Latin: nudus, nuda, nudum Wiktionary
verb Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about bare at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
adjective
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Completely unclothed.
bare bodies
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Lacking in magnitude or quantity.
a bare livelihood
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Not having a protective covering.
unsheathed cables
Origin
From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).
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