hoar
See also: Hoar
English
Etymology
From Middle English hor, hore, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô, IPA(key): /hɔː/
- (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA(key): /hɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: hōr, IPA(key): /ho(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /hoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: whore
Noun
hoar
- A white or greyish-white colour.
- hoar:
- Hoariness; antiquity.
- (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
- (Can we date this quote by Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Translations
colour
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Adjective
hoar (not comparable)
- Of a white or greyish-white colour.
- (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Warton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.
- And lo, where rapt in beauty's heavenly dream
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
- Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
- Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
- Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
- (Can we date this quote by Thomas Warton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:
Derived terms
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Verb
hoar (third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:
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Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.
Noun
hoar n
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Swedish
Noun
hoar
Verb
hoar
- (deprecated template usage) present tense of hoa.
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