Nor
Pronunciation
- RP: enPR: nô, IPA: /nÉ”Ë/
- US enPR: nôr, IPA: /nÉ”Ëɹ/
- Rhymes: -É”Ë(r)
- Homophones: gnaw in non-rhotic accents
Origin 1
Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.
Full definition of nor
Conjunction
- (literary) And not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one)
- BoethiusOut with it, nor hold it fast within your breast.
- ShakespeareI love your majesty
According to my bond, nor more nor less. - Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman (Scott novel)And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it ...
- Nor did I stop to think, but ran.
- A function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true
- 2013-06-22, T time, The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them...is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies....current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate...“stateless incomeâ€: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.
- Used to introduce a further negative statement
- 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 1, I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
- The struggle didn't end, nor was it any less diminished.
- (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) Than.He's no better nor you.