moor
English
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Pronunciation
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- 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)
- 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.
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- In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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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)
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (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.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch moorden, from Middle Dutch morden.
Pronunciation
Verb
moor (present moor, present participle moordende, past participle gemoor)
- (intransitive) to murder
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Dutch
Etymology
From Moor (“member of a North African people”, became synonymous with “Saracen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
moor m (plural moren, diminutive moortje n)
- Something black, notably a black horse
- A whistling kettle, used to boil water in, as for tea or coffee
Synonyms
- (kettle): fluitketel
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Estonian
Pronunciation
Noun
moor (genitive moori, partitive moori)
- (pejorative) an elderly woman; a crone
Declension
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Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian māra, from Proto-Germanic *maizô. More at more.
Adjective
moor
Adverb
moor
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