wear
be dressed in
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,373 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,391 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- be dressed in also: have on She was wearing yellow that day
- have on one's person also: bear He wore a red ribbonbear a scar
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality He always wears a smile
- deteriorate through use or stress also: wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thin The constant friction wore out the cloth
- have or show an appearance of wear one's hair in a certain way
- last and be usable also: hold out, endure This dress wore well for almost ten years
wear in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Nay, let me see you wear it.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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And, having finished his inventory: “And you,” he asked his wife: “what dress will you wear?”
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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How can we strive to win a crown we have no longer any desire to wear?
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story · H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard · Chapter 1
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The thirty-five-year graduates, eighty strong, the men who are handling the nation, wear a unanimous sudden growth of rolling gray beard.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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She was supposed to have come from Normandy, having been frequently seen in the early morning to wear a white cotton cap.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1