Bear

See also: bear, beár, bèar, and béar

English

Etymology

  • As an English surname, related to bear
  • As a German surname, spelling variant of Baer and Bahr

Proper noun

Bear

  1. A surname.
  2. (astronomy, usually preceded by definite article) The constellation Ursa Major.
    • 1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150:
      But he must ever watch the northern Bear,
      Who from her frozen height with jealous eye
      Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south,
      And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.
  3. A male given name.
    • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

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