Main entry: rare
Definition: not widely distributed
Usage: rare herbs; rare patches of green in the desert
Main entry: rare
Definition: not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
Usage: a rare word; rare books
Main entry: rare
Definition: (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside
Usage: rare roast beef
Main entry: rare
Definition: recurring only at long intervals
Usage: a rare appearance; total eclipses are rare events
Definition: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind
Usage: what is so rare as a day in June-J.R.Lowell; a rare skill; an uncommon sense of humor; she was kind to an uncommon degree
Main entry: rare, rarefied, rarified
Definition: having low density
Usage: rare gasses; lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air