Were - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|wər|
Brit.
|wɜː|
verb
- Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
John, you were the only person to see him.
- First-person plural simple past tense indicative of be.We were about to leave.
- Second-person plural simple past tense indicative of be.Mary and John, you were right.
- Third-person plural simple past tense indicative of be.They were a fine group.
They were to be the best of friends from that day on.
- Simple imperfect subjunctive in all persons of be.2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke", BBC Sport:They were to be the best of friends from that day on.
I wish that it were Sunday.
I wish that I were with you.
Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.
- (Northern England) was.I wish that I were with you.
Maccabi would have been out of contention were it not for Stoke's profligacy, but their fortune eventually ran out as the visitors opened the scoring.
noun
- (archaic) man (human male), as in werewolf (“man-wolf").
- (fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
- (fandom slang) The collective name for any kind of person that changes into another form under certain conditions, including the werewolf.
prefix
- man; prefix most commonly used with animal names to indicate a person who changes shape into that animal.
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