Sekirov Dictionary

rare

UK /ɹɛə/US /ɹɛɚ/

adjective 7
verb 2
noun 1
forms 7
phrases 1

adjective7

•
very unusual, and not often found or seen
- Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
•
Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
- Then Curds and Cream, the Flow'r of Country Fare, / And new-laid Eggs, which Baucis’ busie Care / Turn’d by a gentle Fire, and roasted rare. — 1717
Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
Thin; of low density.
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(UK, slang) Good; enjoyable.
- Sees her reflection in a butcher shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair. — 1981
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(US, slang) Cool; excellent.
- I whistled for a cab and when it came near / The license plate said ‘fresh’ and it had dice in the mirror. / If anything I could say that this cab was rare. — 1990
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(no longer used) Early.
- The men, that sway / In work of those tools that so fit our state, / Are rude mechanicals, that rare and late / Work in the market-place — 1614

verb2

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(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm. — 2006
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(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
- Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared. — 2013

noun1

A scarce or uncommon item.

forms

rared · raring · rares · more rare · rarer · most rare · rarest

Phrases with rare

in rare form
Operating or performing at a high level or at one's best; extreme.

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