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Meaning of rare

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  rare
      adj 1: not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness;
             "a rare word"; "rare books"
      2: recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance"; "total
         eclipses are rare events"
      3: not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green
         in the desert"
      4: having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the
         rarefied mountain air" [syn: {rare}, {rarefied}, {rarified}]
      5: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or
         extreme of its kind; "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" [syn: {rare},
         {uncommon}]
      6: (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast
         beef"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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