Moor

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /mɔɹ/, /mÊŠ(É™)ɹ/
• UK IPA: /mɔː/ southern, IPA: /mÊŠ.É™(ɹ)/ northern
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ÊŠÉ™(r)
• Homophones: Moore, more, mooer

Usage notes

more is not a homophone in Northern UK accents, while mooer is homophonous only in those accents.

Old English mōr. Cognates include Dutch moer, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹. See mere.

Full definition of moor

Noun

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

Derived terms

• moorland
• moortop

From Middle English mōren, from unattested Old English *mārian, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mairōną ("to moor, fasten to"). Cognate with Dutch aanmeren ("to moor").

Verb

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

Anagrams

• Moro
• room