Crossword clues for were
were
- "Now ___ talking!"
- "If wishes __ horses ..."
- "If I ___ a rich man . . ."
- "If I __ you . . ."
- "As you" or "as it" follower
- "As you ___!"
- "And __ off!"
- "--- No Angels"
- "___ you saying something?"
- "___ waiting"
- "___ off to see ..."
- "__ number one!"
- "__ in this together!"
- "__ #1!": winners' cry
- ''As you ___!''
- ''___ number one!''
- Would that it ________
- Word with "number one"
- Word that may or may not be a contraction
- Wolf's head?
- When we ____ young
- Was in the past
- Was for many people?
- Was for a group?
- Was for a few?
- Twisted Sister "___ Not Gonna Take It"
- The Way We ____
- Second word of "Moonlight Bay"
- Prefix with "wolf"
- Pink Floyd "Wish You ___ Here"
- Past of verb to be
- Once acted as
- Ocean Vuong's "On Earth ___ Briefly Gorgeous"
- NCO's "As you ___!"
- Had the job of
- Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, ___ Goin Down"
- Existed in the past
- Drake's "Hold On, ___ Going Home"
- Don't exist any longer
- Creature-feature prefix
- Contraction that's also a past-tense verb
- Championship team cheer
- Bruce "I Wish I ___ Blind"
- As you ____
- As it __
- Aren't now
- Aren't anymore
- #1 preceder
- “But it wasn’t a dream. It was a place. And you, and you, and you ... and you ___ there”
- “As you ___.”
- "You ___ saying ..."
- "You ___ saying ...?"
- "You ___ Never Lovelier" (1942 Fred Astaire movie)
- "You ___ Meant for Me" (Jewel song)
- "You ___ Meant for Me"
- "You __ on My Mind": 1965 hit
- "Would that it ___"
- "Wish you --- here"
- "While You ___ Sleeping" (1995 movie)
- "While __ Young": USGA anti-slow play campaign
- "When We ___ Young" (Adele song)
- "What ________ you thinking?"
- "We ____ Soldiers"
- "We __ Soldiers": 2002 Mel Gibson film
- "Those ___ the days!"
- "Those __ the days!"
- "Their Eyes ___ Watching God" (Zora Neale Hurston novel)
- "The Way We ---"
- "The Way We ___" (Barbra Streisand film)
- "Suppose you ___ an idiot. And suppose you ___ a member of Congress. But I repeat myself": Mark Twain
- "Once ___ Warriors" (Alan Duff novel)
- "Now, where ___ we?"
- "Now, where __ we?"
- "Live Like You ___ Dying" (Tim McGraw hit)
- "If wishes __ horses . . ."
- "If only it ___ that easy ..."
- "If I --- King"
- "If I ____ King"
- "If I ___ you . . ."
- "If I ___ king"
- "If I ___ King of the Forest"
- "If I ___ a Boy" (Beyoncé song)
- "I think ___ alone now"
- "I Knew You ___ Trouble"
- "Gimme all your lovin', don't let up until ___ through"
- "As you __": military command
- "As you ___ ... "
- "As it" or "as you" follower
- "... ___ not in Kansas anymore"
- "--- number one!"
- "____ No. 1!"
- "____ No Angels"
- "___ sorry ..."
- "___ Only in It for the Money" (1968 Frank Zappa album)
- "___ number one"
- "___ number one!" (sports fans' chant)
- "___ not worthy!"
- "___ Not Gonna Take It" (1984 Twisted Sister song)
- "___ Not Gonna Take It"
- "___ doomed!"
- "__ waiting . . ."
- "__ off!"
- "__ #1!" (winners' cry)
- 'The Way We '
- 'Sorry, -- closed'
- ''Wish you __ here''
- ''What __ you thinking?''
- ''The Way We ___''
- ''If I ___ a Rich Man''
- _____ wolf
- Used to be
- "_____ off to see..."
- "_____ all in this together"
- Had been
- Had being
- "___ Off to See the Wizard"
- "As you ___" (military command)
- "The stockings ___ hung..."
- Ginger Rogers tune "___ in the Money"
- "___ No Angels" (Bogart film)
- Word before "#1"
- Existed at one time
- "The Way We ___" (Streisand-Redford classic)
- "Where ___ you?"
- "___ No Angels" (Bogart flick)
- Are, eventually
- Used to be
- "Now ___ talkin'!"
- Number one starter?
- "___ Not Dressing" (Crosby comedy)
- "___ sorry..."
- 1973 #1 hit "___ an American Band"
- Ginger Rogers song "___ in the Money"
- "___ madly for Adlai" (1952 campaign slogan)
- "___ #1!"
- "___ number one!" (stadium chant)
- В В Used to be
- Lived and breathed
- As it ___ (so to speak)
- With 50-Down, cry upon returning
- "___ in the Money" (1933 hit)
- "___ here!"
- See 15-Across
- Be in a certain mood?
- See 3-Down
- "___ pregnant!"
- "#1" follows it
- "While you ___ out ... "
- "#1" may follow it
- "___ back"
- "___ back!"
- "___ even"
- "___ live!"
- N.C.O.'s "As you ___!"
- "___ No Angels," 1955 movie
- Milne's "When We ___ Very Young"
- Sergeant's "As you ___"
- "___ in the Money," 1933 song
- "If I _____..."
- "The Way We ___," Streisand hit
- ___ Here, schooner in "Captains Courageous"
- "If I ___ a Rich Man"
- "The Way We ___," Streisand movie
- "Those ___ the Days" ("All in the Family" theme song)
- Common verb
- "You ___ Made for Me"
- "___ No Angels," Bogart comedy
- Wife's present: divorcing husband at one time past
- We are cut down or used to be
- Had a life before wife turned up
- Used to be a sort of wolf?
- Once existed
- "Wish you __ here"
- "What ___ you thinking?"
- Auxiliary verb
- Wolf head?
- I was, you ...
- "___ number one!" (stadium cheer)
- "___ No. 1!"
- "Wish you ___ here!"
- "The Way We ____"
- "If I ___ a Carpenter"
- No longer are
- Are in the past?
- "Wish You ____ Here"
- "If only it ___ that easy"
- Was for several people?
- Plural contraction
- "Where __ you?"
- "The Way We __"
- "___ off to see the wizard . . ."
- "___ all in this together"
- "__ here!"
- Was for many?
- Part of to be
- Are no longer
- "If I ___ you ..."
- 'The Way We --'
- Word with "No. 1!"
- Word in a Streisand film title
- Was plural
- Was for many
- Verb of the past?
- Prefix with wolf
- Hurston's "Their Eyes __ Watching God"
- Had life, e.g
- Gibson flick, "We ___ Soldiers"
- Contraction with number one
- Contraction with "number one"
- Contraction with "No. 1"
- As it ___
- Are, in the past
- Are no more
- 1973 film ''The Way We ___''
- "You ___ right"
- "Wish You ___ Here" (1975 Pink Floyd album)
- "While You ___ Sleeping"
- "While ___ on the subject ..."
- "While ___ on the subject . . ."
- "Where ___ we?"
- "Those --- the Days"
- "The stockings ___ hung . . ."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Were \Were\, v. t. & i.
To wear. See 3d Wear. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Were \Were\, n.
A weir. See Weir. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. Sir P. Sidney.
Were \Were\, v. t. [AS. werian.]
To guard; to protect. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Were \Were\ (w[~e]r; 277). [AS. w[=ae]re (thou) wast, w[=ae]ron (we, you, they) were, w[=ae]re imp. subj. See Was.] The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.
Were \Were\ (w[=e]r), n. [AS. wer; akin to OS. & OHG. wer, Goth. wa['i]r, L. vir, Skr. v[=i]ra. Cf. Weregild, and Werewolf.]
A man. [Obs.]
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A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild. [Obs.]
Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.
--Bosworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wæron (past plural indicative of wesan) and wære (second person singular past indicative); see was. The forms illustrate Verner's Law (named for Danish linguist Karl Verner, 1875), which predicts the "s" to "z" sound shift, and rhotacism, which changed "z" to "r." Wast (second person singular) was formed 1500s on analogy of be/beest, displacing were. An intermediate form, wert, was used in literature 17c.-18c., before were reclaimed the job.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (form of Second-person singular simple past tense indicative be English). 2 (form of First-person plural simple past tense indicative be English). 3 (form of Second-person plural simple past tense indicative be English). 4 (form of Third-person plural simple past tense indicative be English). 5 (form of Simple imperfect subjunctive mood subjunctive in all persons be English). Etymology 2
n. 1 (context archaic English) man (human male), as in (term werewolf man-wolf English). 2 (context obsolete English) A fine for slaying a man; weregild. 3 (context fandom English) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
WordNet
See be
v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist]
happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"
be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal] [ant: differ]
form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise]
work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: follow]
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, personify]
spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: live]
to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be"
be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost]
Wikipedia
Were and wer are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife" in Germanic-speaking cultures (, , , , , , , ).
In folklore and fantasy fiction, were- is often used as a prefix applied to an animal name to indicate a type of therianthropic or shapeshifter (e.g. "were- boar"). Hyphenation used to be mandatory but is now commonly dropped, as in werecat and wererat. This usage can be seen as a back-formation from werewolf (literally, "man- wolf"), as there is no equivalent wifewolf.
Gothic has a word translating kosmos, not derived from the same stem: , used by Ulfilas in alternation with . The corresponding West Germanic term is " world", literally wer "man" + ald "age". Gothic is cognate to Old High German , Old English , terms expressing "lifetime" ().
The word has cognates in various other languages, for example, the words (as in virility) and (plural as in Fir Bolg) are the Latin and Gaelic for a male human.
Were is an archaic term for an adult male human, now used as a prefix to indicate a type of shapeshifter.
Were may also refer to:
- were, a preterite and irrealis form of the English copular verb to be
- Were music, a style of Muslim religious music
- WERE, a radio station licensed to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
- Boky Wéré, a village in Mali
- Were (river), a river in Wiltshire, England
- Were language, a language of Papua New-Guinea
- Wèré, a variety of the Upper Morehead language of Papua New-Guinea
- Were or Warra, a common element in the names of Oromo clans of Ethiopia
- Beatrice Were, a Ugandan AIDS activist
- David Were, a Kenyan politician
- Edward Were, a 19th-century Anglican bishop
- Miriam Were, a Kenyan public health advocate
- Mugabe Were, a Kenyan legislator
Usage examples of "were".
He saw that the epicentre of Aberrancy always lay at the site of a Weaver monastery, and the monasteries were always built around the witchstones.
Every year, more children were born Aberrant, more were snatched by the Weavers.
The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.
Tane and Asara were firing on the first Aberrant creature, trying to dissuade it from the panicking manxthwa, but it held fast.
Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.
Kuhmbuhluhners on their big horses, aided and abetted, if the tales of the fugitives were to be believed, by bearded Ahrmehnee warriors and even Moon Maidens.
Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.
He asked, what officers would risk this event if the rioters themselves, or their abettors, were afterwards to sit as their judges?
The opposition also maintained that such a practice of raising troops was contrary to the oath of coronation, and that all who subscribed were abettors of perjury.
But the Americans and their abettors were not content with defensive law.
The troops of ladies were off to bereave themselves of their fashionable imitation old lace adornment, which denounced them in some sort abettors and associates of the sanguinary loathed wretch, Mrs.
Now he thought that he would abide their coming and see if he might join their company, since if he crossed the water he would be on the backward way: and it was but a little while ere the head of them came up over the hill, and were presently going past Ralph, who rose up to look on them, and be seen of them, but they took little heed of him.
Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.
Yet how should he not go to Utterbol with the Damsel abiding deliverance of him there: and yet again, if they met there and were espied on, would not that ruin everything for her as well as for him?
And a gorgeous pair of eyes they were, the young police sergeant noted as Abie Singleton continued her tirade against the Houston Police Department.