Definitions for RARE
rɛərrare

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. rareadjective

   not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness

   "a rare word"; "rare books"

2. rareadjective

   recurring only at long intervals

   "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"

3. rareadjective

   not widely distributed

   "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"

4. rare, rarefied, rarifiedadjective

   having low density

   "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

5. rare, uncommonadjective

   marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind

   "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"

6. rareadjective

   (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside

   "rare roast beef"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. RAREadjective

   Etymology: rarus, Lat. rare, Fr. in all the senses but the last.

   1. Scarce; uncommon.

   Live to be the shew, and gaze o’ th’ time;
   We’ll have you, as our rarer monsters are,
   Painted upon a pole. William Shakespeare.

   2. Excellent; incomparable; valuable to a degree seldom found.

   This jealousy
   Is for a precious creature; as she’s rare,
   Must it be great; and as his person’s mighty,
   Must it be violent. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   On which was wrought the gods and giants fight,
   Rare work, all fill’d with terror and delight. Abraham Cowley.

   Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. Dryden.

   3. Thinly scattered.

   The cattle in the fields and meadows green
   Those rare and solitary, these in flocks
   Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung. John Milton.

   4. Thin; subtle; not dense.

   They are of so tender and weak a nature, as they affect only such a rare and attenuate substance, as the spirit of living creatures. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   So eagerly the fiend
   O’er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
   With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. John Milton.

   The dense and bright light of the circle will obscure the rare and weak light of these dark colours round about it, and render them almost insensible. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   Bodies are much more rare and porous than is commonly believed: water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence nineteen times rarer than gold, and gold is so rare, as very readily, and without the least opposition, to transmit the magnetick effluvia, and easily to admit quicksilver into its pores, and to let water pass through it. Isaac Newton, Opticks.

   5. Raw; not fully subdued by the fire. This is often pronounced rear.

   New-laid eggs, with Baucis’ busy care,
   Turn’d by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rare

   Rare is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani from her third studio album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like (2016). It was released on March 18, 2016, along with the rest of This Is What the Truth Feels Like by Interscope Records. The track was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and Greg Kurstin; Kurstin was the track's sole producer. "Rare" is an electropop and folk pop influenced song and serves as the album's closing track. Lyrically, the song discusses finding love when all hope was lost. Several media outlets speculated that "Rare" was written about Stefani's boyfriend Blake Shelton and his ex-wife Miranda Lambert. "Rare" received generally favorable reviews from music critics, some of which called the song "glamorous" and predicted that it would become a future "summer hit".

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1. rare

   Rare generally refers to something that is not common or occurs infrequently. It can be used to describe a variety of things, from objects to events to traits, indicating that they are unusual, unique, or hard to find or come across.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rareadjective

   early

2. Rare

   nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton

3. Rare

   not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event

4. Rare

   of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found

5. Rare

   thinly scattered; dispersed

6. Rare

   characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations

7. Etymology: [Cf. Rather, Rath.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 3 votes

1. Rare

   rār, adj. (comp. Rā′rer; superl. Rā′rest) thin: not dense, as rarefied atmosphere: sparse: seldom met with: uncommon: excellent: especially good: extraordinary.—ns. Rāre′bit, an erroneous form of Welsh-rabbit; Rarefac′tion, act of rarefying: expansion of aëriform bodies.—adj. Rar′efiable, capable of being rarefied.—v.t. Rarefy (rar′e-fī, or rā′re-fī), to make rare, thin, or less dense: to expand a body.—v.i. to become less dense:—pa.t. and pa.p. rar′efied.—adv. Rāre′ly, seldom: remarkably well.—ns. Rāre′ness, tenuity: scarcity; Rarity (rar′i-ti), state of being rare: thinness: subtilty: something valued for its scarcity: uncommonness. [Fr.,—L. rārus.]

2. Rare

   rār, adj. underdone—of meat. [A.S. hrēr.]

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EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rare

   seldom seen or found.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'RARE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2186

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'RARE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3842

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'RARE' in Adjectives Frequency: #274

Anagrams for RARE »

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of RARE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of RARE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of RARE in a Sentence

1. Leo Buscaglia:

   Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

2. Andreu Raig:

   Anna has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, a rather rare genetic condition, affecting one in 50,000. The main problems she faces are hypotonia, meaning she has very little strength, she has growth problems, intellectual disability, her communication is very, very basic, and once in a while she has epileptic seizures. So one of the problems she faces is how to interact with her surroundings, so the chair could primarily help her do that. The fact that she has to push a button in order to do something, allows her to interact.

3. Matt Thompson:

   Zimm had a very big day yesterday, and she's safe and secure now, she's an extremely spirited, athletic animal. This is a very rare occurrence.

4. Ian Crawford:

   If you're just interested in platinum group elements, you would probably go and mine the asteroids, on the other hand, if going to the moon for scavenging polar volatiles, rare earth elements … then the impact sites of crashed asteroids could offer an added bonus.

5. Alastair Key:

   The diversity of tools is fantastic. In the 1920s, the site produced some of earliest handaxes ever discovered in Britain. Now, for the first time, we have found rare evidence of scraping and piercing implements at this very early age.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=RARE
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=RARE
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RARE
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=RARE
7. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=RARE