What is the meaning of rare?

Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness.
- usage: "a rare word"; "rare books"
Recurring only at long intervals.
- usage: "a rare appearance"; "total eclipses are rare events"
Not widely distributed.
- usage: "rare herbs"; "rare patches of green in the desert"
Having low density.
- usage: "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
- synonyms: rarefied, rarified
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"
- synonyms: uncommon
Of meat. ( cooked a short time; still red inside)
- usage: "rare roast beef"

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