# are

Pronunciation: US say "AHR" /ɑɹ/; UK say "AH" /ɑː(ɹ)/

## Verb

1. Simple present of be, used with you, we and they, and with plural nouns. — third-person plural simple present of be
   - Simple: Present form of be. Use it with you, we, they, or with two or more people or things.
   - _The new recruits are eager to prove themselves._
   - _Those mountains are visible from the coast on clear days._
3. Present tense of be, used with every person in East Yorkshire and Midlands dialect. *(dialectal, East, Midlands, Yorkshire)* — present of be
   - Simple: Present tense of be. In parts of Yorkshire and the Midlands, people use it with I, he and she too.
   - _The old mill are being pulled down next month, they reckon._
   - _She are stopping at her mam's till Sunday._

## Noun

2. A metric unit of area equal to 100 square meters, used mainly for measuring land; it is outside the modern SI and rarely used in English. Its symbol is a. *(rare)*
   - Simple: A unit for measuring area equal to 100 square meters.
   - _In the metric system, one hectare is made up of one hundred ares, so a single are is about the size of a small yard._
   - _Surveyors a century ago often recorded plots in ares rather than hectares._

## Origin

**Meanings 1, 3** — From Middle English aren, from Old English earun/earon ("are"), possibly reinforced by Old Norse plural forms in er-. Its deeper origin is disputed: it may be an irregular Germanic form of the verb "to be" or come from a root meaning "to rise," and it is related to Old English eart ("thou art").
**Meaning 2** — From French are.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/are (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).