• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ʃɛə/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ʃɛɚ/

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• (General Australian)IPA^(key):/ʃeː/
• (New Zealand,without thecheer–chair merger)IPA^(key):/ʃeə/
• (New Zealand,cheer–chair merger)IPA^(key):/ʃiə/
• (Scotland)IPA^(key):/ʃeɹ/
• (Lancashire,fair–fur merger)IPA^(key):/ʃɜː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes:-ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones:shear(cheer–chair merger),sheer(cheer–chair merger)

FromMiddle Englishschare,schere, fromOld Englishsċearu(“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), fromProto-West Germanic*skaru, fromProto-Germanic*skarō(“a division, detachment”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)ker-(“to cut, divide”).

Cognate withSaterland Frisianskar,sker(“a share in a communal pasture”),Dutchschare(“share in property”),GermanSchar(“band, troop, party, company”),Icelandicskor(“department”). Compareshard,shear.Doublet ofeschel.

share (pluralshares)

1. Aportion of something, especially a portiongiven orallotted to someone.

   Each of the robbers took ashare of the loot.

   The TV programme was cancelled because it only gained a 10%share of that night's viewing audience.

   • 2023 July 26, Paul Clifton, “A (safe and secure) Day at the Races...”, inRAIL, number988, page35:

     SWR has more than its fairshare 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.

3. (finance) Afinancial instrument that shows that oneowns a part of acompany that provides the benefit oflimited liability.
4. (computing) Aconfiguration enabling aresource to beshared over anetwork.

   Upload media from the browser or directly to the fileshare.

5. (social media) The action of sharing something with other people viasocial media.
   • 2016, Brooke Warner,Green-Light Your Book:

     Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increaseshares and likes and follows.

6. (anatomy) Thesharebone orpubis.
   • 1606, Suetonius, translated by Philemon Holland,De Vita Cæsarum:

     […] [H]ee stabbed him beneth in the veryshare neere unto his privie parts. [Dom.17]

• → Thai:แชร์(chɛɛ)

share (third-person singular simple presentshares,present participlesharing,simple past and past participleshared)

1. Togive part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
2. Tohave oruse in common.

   toshare a shelter with another

   Theyshare a language.

   • a.1675,John Milton,On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester; republished inA Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London:s.n.],1698,→OCLC,page24:

     While Avarice and Rapineſhare the Land.

   • 1913,Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, inThe Lodger, London:Methuen,→OCLC; republished inNovels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.:Longmans, Green and Co., […],[1933],→OCLC,page0056:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not beshared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated, page752:

     The Kleine Scheidegg is quite a colony, with its railway station,shared by the Wengernalp and Jungfrau Railways, its commodious station buffet and two large hotels.

3. Todivide anddistribute.
   • 1708 December 15 (Gregorian calendar; date written),[Jonathan Swift],A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland to a Member of the House of Commons in England, Concerning the Sacramental Test, London:[…]John Morphew […], published1709,→OCLC,page21:

     [S]uppose Iſhare my Fortune equally between my ownChildren, and aStranger whom I take into my Protection; will that be a Method to unite them?

4. Totell to another.

   Heshared his story with the press.

   • 2013 May 10,Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, inThe Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume189, number 2, page27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…] offering services that let you[…]“share the things you love with the world” and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

5. (computing,Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computerdata orspace in anetwork

FromMiddle Englishshare,schare,shaar, fromOld Englishsċear,sċær(“ploughshare”), fromProto-Germanic*skaraz(“ploughshare”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)ker-(“to cut”). Cognate withDutchschaar(“ploughshare”), dialectalGermanSchar(“ploughshare”),Danish(plov)skær(“ploughshare”). More atshear.

share (pluralshares)

1. (agriculture) The cuttingblade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
   • 1785,William Cowper,The Task, Book IV:

     The golden harvest, of a mellow brown,
     Upturn'd so lately by the fearfulshare.

• ploughshare/plowshare
• sharebeam

share (third-person singular simple presentshares,present participlesharing,simple past and past participleshared)

1. (transitive,obsolete) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
   • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London:[…]Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:

     Theshar'd visage hangs on equal sides.

• Asher,Rahes,Shear,asher,earsh,hares,harse,hears,heras,rheas,sehar,sehra,shear

Pseudo-anglicism, derived fromshare.

share m (pluralshari)

1. (television)percent of people watching a particularshow out of the totalviewing audience at a given time
   • 2024 February 11, Giuseppe Candela, “Sanremo 2024, chiude con ascolti record: 74,1% dishare, è la finale più vista dal 1995 con Pippo Baudo. Il picco con Fiorello e Roberto Bolle [Sanremo 2024, closes off with record viewership: 74.1% of theviewing audience, and the most viewed finale since 1995 with Pippo Baudo. The peak with Fiorello and Roberto Bolle]”, inil Fatto Quotidiano‎^[2]:

     Edizione da incorniciare. “Sanremo 2024” saluta il pubblico con ascolti record: la quinta serata è stata vista da ben 14.301.000 con il 74,1% dishare.

     An edition that should be framed. "Sanremo 2024" greets the audience with record viewership: the fifth night was viewed by no less than 14,301,000 people with 74.1% of theviewing audience.

2. (finance)share(financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company)

share

1. Rōmaji transcription ofしゃれ
2. Rōmaji transcription ofシャレ

FromOld Irishisferr(“it’s better”), fromProto-Celtic*werros, fromProto-Indo-European*wers-(“peak”). Akin toLatinverrūca(“steep place, height”),Lithuanianviršùs(“top, head”) andOld Church Slavonicврьхъ(vrĭxŭ,“top, peak”). CompareIrishfearr.

IPA^(key):/ʃɛːr/

share

1. comparative degree ofmie

   Share çhyndaa cabbil ayns mean ny h-aah na goll er vaih.

   Better to change horses in mid ford than to drown.

FromOld Englishscear, fromProto-Germanic*skaraz(“ploughshare”).

• sharre,shzar,sher

• IPA^(key):/ʃar/,/ʃaːr/

share (pluralshares)

1. plowshare

• English:share
• Yola:shor,shar,shaar

• “shā̆r(e,n.(1).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

FromOld Englishsċearu, fromProto-West Germanic*skaru, fromProto-Germanic*skarō.

• schar,sharre

• IPA^(key):/ˈʃaːr(ə)/

share (pluralshares)

1. portion

• English:share
• Scots:schare
• Yola:shaar

• “shār(e,n.(3).”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishshare.

• IPA^(key):/ˈʃeɾ/[ˈʃeɾ]
• Rhymes:-eɾ

share m (pluralshares)

1. (television)share of the audience
   • 2000, Valerio Fuenzalida,La televisión pública en América Latina: reforma o privatización:

     Ambos muestran problemas de administración con fuerte inestabilidad y graves problemas económicos, con baja sintonía y credibilidad por ser canales del gobierno; en 1998 tuvo unshare promedio de 3,3% (Television Latin America, 1999; Cfr.La Industria Audiovisual Iberoamericana, 1998).

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   • 2003, Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara,Querido maestro: dos en un sofá‎^[3], volume 2:

     En concreto, en la primera temporada (2001- 2002), la serie alcanza una media de 5,5 millones de espectadores y unshare de 33,3%.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2005, Albor Rodríguez,Misses de Venezuela: reinas que cautivaron a un país:

     De acuerdo a las estadísticas de la planta, el Miss Venezuela es el programa más visto de la televisión venezolana con unshare de 75,9%[…]

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.