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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Samuel Foote

Meaning of "she-bear" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHE-BEAR

she-bear  [ˈʃiːˌbeə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHE-BEAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
She-Bear is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHE-BEAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

she-bear

The She-bear

"The She-bear" is an Italian literary fairy tale, written by Giambattista Basile in his 1634 work, the Pentamerone. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in A Book of Princes and Princesses. It is Aarne-Thompson classification system folktale type 510B, unnatural love. Others of this type include Cap O' Rushes, Catskin, Allerleirauh, The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter, Donkeyskin, Little Cat Skin, Mossycoat, The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress, and The Bear. Henriette-Julie de Murat used a similar transformation in Bearskin, for the heroine to escape not her father but an ogre husband.

Definition of she-bear in the English dictionary

The definition of she-bear in the dictionary is a female bear.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHE-BEAR


berbere
beəˈbeə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHE-BEAR

she
she is no spring chicken
she-cat
she-devil
she-goat
she-male
she-oak
she-wolf
she´d
she´ll
she´ll be right
she´s
she´s apples
she´s jake
shea
shea butter
sheading
sheaf
sheaflike
sheafy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHE-BEAR

abear
American black bear
bear
black bear
bring to bear
brown bear
bugbear
cinnamon bear
forbear
forebear
grizzly bear
he-bear
honey bear
koala bear
Kodiak bear
polar bear
sloth bear
sun bear
teddy bear
white bear

Synonyms and antonyms of she-bear in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «she-bear» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHE-BEAR

Find out the translation of she-bear to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of she-bear from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «she-bear» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

她熊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

osa
570 millions of speakers

English

she-bear
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वह भालू
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انها الدب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

медведица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ursa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সে-ভালুক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ourse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Beruang-beruang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bärin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

彼女は、クマ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그녀 - 곰
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dheweke-bear
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cô gấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அவள்-கரடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ती-अस्वल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dişi ayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orsa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niedźwiedzica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ведмедиця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ea - urs
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτή - αρκούδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sy-dra
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

she- bear
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

binne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of she-bear

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHE-BEAR»

The term «she-bear» is normally little used and occupies the 123.746 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHE-BEAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about she-bear

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QUOTES WITH «SHE-BEAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word she-bear.
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Samuel Foote
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHE-BEAR»

Discover the use of she-bear in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to she-bear and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
He Bear, She Bear
Two little bears, a brother and sister, speculate on all the things they could grow up to be.
‎2002
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She Bear Bride
Chapter Six “Her name is She-Bear—Bride.” “What?” Chick exclaimed loudly. “I said her name is She-Bear-Bride.” “That's her real name?” Chick asked. “Her real name is Sheba,” I explained. “Beannie, what is it, She Bare Butt, or Sheba?
Carla C. Ohse, 2006
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Will she bear it?
Will. if he would still say something. " Good morning, Mr. Newland," she said, with emphasis, as if she expected him to leave her; and he did so. Alice remained a minute in the same position. She then pressed her hands closely to her forehead,  ...
Will, 1872
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He Bear, She Bear
Brother Bear and Sister Bear speculate on all the things they could grow up to be.
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, 1999
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Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian ...
In Virgil it is the lioness who is identified as negligent mother; in Folengo it is the she-bear: "Ursa ferox, et dira magis, se cazzat inan- tum; / quae male formattos ursattos liquerat antro" ("The ferocious she-bear rushes forward, even more ...
Marilyn Migiel, Juliana Schiesari, 1991
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Ancient Egypt - The Light of the World: A Work of ...
In that case the Totemic Mother was a She-Bear, and the fact was memorized when the Ainu women suckled the young Bear that was to be killed and solemnly eaten at the annual festival. Besides which, when the She-Bear was eaten in place ...
Gerald Massey, 2008
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Ancient Greek Religion
A she-bear once was given to the sanctuary of Artemis and was tamed. Once a maiden was playing with the bear, and the bear scratched out her eyes. The girl's brother(s), in grief for her, killed the bear. And then a famine befell the Athenians.
Jon D. Mikalson, 2011
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The Child in the Bible
All three texts play with imagery drawn directly from the lived observation that a she-bear is very dangerous if one interferes with her cubs. The attachment of the she-bear to the cubs is an intense one whereby the cubs are to be valued and ...
Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, 2008
9
The Singing Mountaineers: Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
The she-bear had cooked especially for the man and had put the food into a small earthen pot. She tied the pot with a rope and lowered it down to the bottom of the precipice. "Recover your strength with this! Eat quickly!" she said as she let out ...
José María Arguedas, Ruth Stephan, 2010
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Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile
And it is here that the mother-tongue, the subject of this book, enters my tale; in the form of the she-bear's tongue, her kindly mother's tongue, which will lick, " slurp, slurp", her powerless newborn cub - who at that moment resembles more than ...
Judit Szekacs-Weisz, Ivan Ward, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHE-BEAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term she-bear is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Poor Unfortunate Soul'
(Being a Greek god, you'd think he might know enough about the classics to point out how odd it is that the mer-divinity's name actually means “she-bear,” and ... «Entertainment Weekly, Mar 15»
2
Comment: Two sides of the First Nations land-title coin
... Colonist wrote that to assert an Indian right to land on Vancouver Island was as absurd as to “prate of the natural right of a he-panther or a she-bear to the soil. «Times Colonist, Jul 14»
3
Footnotes of Ice and Fire: The Backstory on 'Watchers on the Wall'
All ripped and torn I was, and had me member bit right off, and there on me floor was a she-bear's pelt. And soon enough the free folk were telling tales of this ... «The Wire, Jun 14»
4
BSG's Michelle Forbes Is Going to Mess Some Frakkers Up In …
Only Jorah's been in the show so far, but in the books he has an aunt (Maege “The She-Bear” Mormont) and several female cousins who are all stone-cold ... «The Mary Sue, May 14»
5
Margaret Thatcher's sharp tongue behind her 'Iron Lady' reputation
... Reuters reporter who covered her at parliamentary question time, recalled it was “like being on the edge of a bear pit, where the great she-bear always wins.”. «McClatchy Washington Bureau, Apr 13»
6
Behold Shakespeare, as a 1591 Londoner
... clothing and weapons, and even the dented skull of a celebrated she-bear killed by dogs in one of the gruesome bear-baiting spectacles that competed with ... «Globe and Mail, Aug 12»
7
Latvia's runaway she-bear shot dead
The she-bear had been on the loose for two days after breaking out of her compound at the Ligatne Nature Park for the second time in less than a year. «Emirates 24/7, Apr 12»
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Man caught 'with bear in blanket' on Russian border
Russian customs have stopped a man suspected of trying to smuggle an elderly she-bear into Ukraine, hiding it under a blanket in his van. The Ukrainian citizen ... «BBC News, Apr 11»
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Bear chases man after being shot with tranquilliser dart
A she-bear chases a man who tried to tranquillize her. Image 1 of 3. A she-bear chases a man who tried to tranquillize her Photo: EPA. A she-bear chases a man ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 10»
10
Bear Drama in Southern Poland
It didn't. On Friday, the she-bear was back, this time nosing into the village of Chorzow. And this time, efforts to tranquilize her proved decidedly unsuccessful. «Spiegel Online, Jan 10»

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