hare

1. 1.

   run quickly, like a hare

   “He hared down the hill”

   Broaderrun

Other forms of hare

plural

hares·

past tense

hared·

present participle

haring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hare

What does hare mean?

hare means "swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hare?

hare has 1 syllable: hare. In IPA it is /ˈhɛɹ/.

What is another word for hare?

Close synonyms include rabbit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hare a common word?

hare is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hare?

3 words rhyme with hare. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.