Noun: share
| Singular | share |
| Plural | shares |
Sample Sentences
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Each of the robbers took a share of the loot.
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The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10% share of that night's viewing audience.
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SWR has more than its fair share of major national events. As well as the [Queen's] funeral and the coronation in the past 12 months, annual events include racing at Ascot, grand slam tennis at Wimbledon, and rugby internationals at Twickenham. [2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, in RAIL, number 988, page 35:]
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Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share.
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Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows. [2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:]
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1606: translation by Philemon Holland of Suetonius, De vita Cæsarum [Domitian 17] — [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the very share neere unto his privie parts.
Nouns inflected like share
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel. See: Middle English Nouns '
schare', Old English Nouns '
sċearu', Dutch Nouns '
schare', German Nouns '
Schar', Icelandic Nouns '
skor'.
Verbs referencing "share"
German Nouns
Schar, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
skare, Old Norse Nouns
skari, Dutch Nouns
schare, Italian Nouns
scèra.