moor

See also: Moor, мөөг, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

English

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɔɹ/, /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɔː/ (with the pour–poor merger), IPA(key): /mʊə(ɹ)/ (without the pour–poor merger)
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊə(r)
  • Homophone: Moore (all accents)
  • Homophone: more (with the pour–poor merger)
  • Homophone: mooer (some accents)

Usage notes

More is not a homophone in some Northern UK accents, while mooer is.

Etymology 1

From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.

Noun

moor (plural moors)

  1. an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
    A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
    • Carew
      In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
  2. a game preserve consisting of moorland
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-Germanic *mairōną (“to moor, fasten to”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).

Verb

moor (third-person singular simple present moors, present participle mooring, simple past and past participle moored)

  1. (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
  2. (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
    the vessel was moored in the stream
    they moored the boat to the wharf.
  3. (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

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Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

from Moor (North African people, became synonymous with Saracene)

Pronunciation
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Noun

moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)

  1. Something black, notably a black horse
  2. A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • moorkop

Anagrams

Estonian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /moːr/

Noun

moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)

  1. (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone

Declension
Declension of moor (type riik)
singular plural
nominative moor moorid
genitive moori mooride
partitive moori moore / moorisid
illative moori / moorisse mooridesse
inessive mooris moorides
elative moorist mooridest
allative moorile mooridele
adessive mooril mooridel
ablative moorilt mooridelt
translative mooriks moorideks
terminative moorini moorideni
essive moorina mooridena
abessive moorita moorideta
comitative mooriga mooridega

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.

Adjective

moor

  1. more

Adverb

moor

  1. more
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