Were

v. exist; occur, happen; occupy a position or place

WERE is an AM radio station licensed to Cleveland Heights, Ohio and operating on 1490 kHz. The station's studios are in downtown Cleveland, while the transmitter is along Euclid Avenue near East 118th Street, adjacent to the Case Western Reserve University campus. It uses the on-air slogan "The People's Station," and features an urban news/talk format. The majority of WERE's shows are syndicated by station owner Radio One.
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Were and wer are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife". In folklore and fantasy fiction, were- is often used as a prefix applied to an animal name to indicate a type of shapeshifter (e.g. "were-boar"). Hyphenation used to be mandatory but is now commonly dropped, as in werecat and wererat. This usage can be seen as a back formation from werewolf (literally, "man-wolf"), as there is no equivalent wifewolf. A further back formation, polywere, eliminates the animal root entirely.
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Verb
1. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
(hyponym) look
2. be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
(hyponym) stretch, stretch along
4. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
(synonym) exist
(hyponym) come
(derivation) being, beingness, existence
5. happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen"
6. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"
(synonym) equal
(hyponym) equate, correspond
7. form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"
(synonym) constitute, represent, make up, comprise
(hyponym) make
8. work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher"
(synonym) follow
(hyponym) vet
9. represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
(synonym) embody, personify
(hypernym) typify, symbolize, symbolise, stand for, represent
(hyponym) body, personify
10. spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
(hypernym) take, occupy, use up
11. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"
(synonym) live
(verb-group) survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
(derivation) organism, being
12. to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be"
(hypernym) stay, remain, rest
13. be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"
(synonym) cost
(hyponym) set back, knock back, put back

The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.
  

(v. t.)
To guard; to protect.
  

(v. t. & i.)
To wear. See 3d Wear.
  

(n.)
A weir. See Weir.
  

(n.)
A man.
  

(n.)
A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
  

[Other] The supreme god of the Luo of Kenya. He controls life and death, and he strikes down wrongdoers with thunderbolts.