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stare

verb

  1. look intently, gazing fixedly
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noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈstaɹeɪ/ / /stəˈɹeɪ/ / /stɛɚ/ / /stɛə/ / /steː/

name

Etymology: From Polish Stare and Ukrainian Старе́ (Staré), both neuter substantives of adjectives — Polish stary and Ukrainian стари́й (starýj) — meaning “old”, both of which ultimately descend from Proto-Slavic *stàrъ. Compare Staroye.

  1. A village in the Gmina of Rogoźno, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  2. A village in the Gmina of Wysoka, Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  3. A hamlet in the Gmina of Kaźmierz, Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
  4. A former village in the former Irkliiv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, founded before 1750, destroyed in 1959–60 by the flooding of the Kremenchuk Reservoir
  5. A village in Voronkiv rural hromada, Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1455.
  6. A village in Zghurivka settlement hromada, Brovary Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1910.
  7. A rural settlement in Kadiivka urban hromada, Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1930, controlled by the Luhansk People’s Republic since 2014.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English star, ster, from Old English stær (“starling”), from Proto-Germanic *starô (“starling”), from Proto-Indo-European *stor- (“starling”). Cognate with German Star (“starling”), Danish stær (“starling”), Swedish stare (“starling”), Norwegian Nynorsk stare (“starling”), Icelandic stari (“starling”). Compare also Old English stearn (“a type of bird, starling”).

  1. A starling.

    “The Stares be bigger than thoſe in England, as blacke as Crovves, being the most troubleſome, and injurious bird of all others, pulling up the cornes by the roots, vvhen it is young, […]”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-. Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.

  1. To look fixedly (at something).

    “She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.”

    “Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had”

  2. To influence in some way by looking fixedly.

    “to stare a timid person into submission”

  3. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

    “staring windows or colours”

  4. To stand out; to project; to bristle.

    “Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.”

    “Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.”