Lear

Jet company surname

Lear is best known as the tragic king in Shakespeare's play—an aging monarch who divides his kingdom among his daughters and descends into madness when two of them betray him.

King Lear has become shorthand for themes of filial ingratitude, aging, and the folly of surrendering power.

Edward Lear was a 19th-century English writer known for nonsense verse and limericks.

Shakespearean

King

Male hereditary ruler

Regan · fool · storm · heath · abdication · ingratitude · blindness · Gloucester · Edgar · Edmund

Edward

poet

Writer of verse

Victorian · illustrator · absurdist · verse · botanical · drawings · melancholy · humor · cats · travels

aviation

jet

Forced fluid stream

  • LearjetLuxury business aircraft brand
  • privateRestricted to certain parties
  • aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle

business · charter · cockpit · tycoon · executive · flight · runway · luxury · travel · corporate

Categories
Opposites
TRAGIC SHAKESPEAREAN MONARCHS vs. COMIC/FORTUNATE SHAKESPEAREAN FIGURES

LearProspero

Exiled magical duke

Rosalind · Pericles · Theseus · Henry V · Oberon

FOOLISH/BLIND LITERARY FATHERS vs. WISE/PERCEPTIVE LITERARY FATHERS

LearProspero

Exiled magical duke

Atticus Finch · Solomon · Odysseus · Polonius

EDWARD LEAR NONSENSE TRADITION vs. SERIOUS/DIDACTIC POETRY

LearTennyson

Victorian English poet laureate

Wordsworth · Isaac Watts · Longfellow · Robert Browning

Phrases
Family

learn, learned, learnt, learning, learner, learners

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated PG