ure

See also: Ure, urë, üre, and -ure

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman *eure, Old French uevre ( > modern œuvre), from Latin opera (work, labor). Doublet of opera

Noun

ure (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) use, practise, exercise.

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,
      [] the French soldiers [] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms []

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈy.rə/

Noun

ure

  1. plural of uur

Ambai

Alternative forms

Noun

ure

  1. eye

Danish

Noun

ure n

  1. indefinite plural of ur

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

  1. fire

References


Interlingue

Noun

ure

  1. (chemistry) urea

Japanese

Romanization

ure

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うれ

Latin

Verb

ūre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō

Middle English

Determiner

ure

  1. Alternative form of oure

References


Old English

Alternative forms

  • ūser (Northumbrian or poetic)

Etymology

From earlier *ūser, from Anglo-Frisian *ūsær, from North Sea Germanic *ūsar, from West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuːre/

Determiner

ūre

  1. our

Declension

Descendants

Pronoun

ūre

  1. genitive of : ours, of us

Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

  1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.

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