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• (General American) enPR: ôr, IPA^(key): /ɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ōr, IPA^(key): /o(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /oə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: oar, o'er; or (horse–hoarse merger); aw, awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.

Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).

ore (countable and uncountable, plural ores)

1. Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.

   Hyponyms: copper ore, iron ore, tin ore

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.

Borrowed from Latin ora.^[1]

ore (plural ores)

1. A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.

   Synonym: ora

   • 1956, Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, London, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 295:

     In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.

A southern variant of ware (“seaweed”).^[2]

ore (uncountable)

1. (dialectal, archaic) Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.

• woar (Ireland)

Possibly originating as a figurative use of Etymology 1, with Leominster's "ore" representing the wealth of the town.^[3]

ore (uncountable)

1. (historical) A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
   • a. 1638 (date written), Ben Jonson, “For the Honour of Wales”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson,  (Third Folio), London: Thomas Hodgkin, for H Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, page 608, column 1:

     But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrid

• Chiefly used in the form "Lemster ore"; Lemster is a shortened pronunciation of Leominster.

ore

1. Obsolete form of over.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. , London: By G Eld for T T and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature B3, recto:

     When I behold the violet paſt prime, / And ſable curls or ſiluer'd ore with white: […]

ore (plural ore)

1. Alternative form of öre

• ore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• REO, ROE, roe, eor, Reo, Roe, RoE, o'er, reo, OER, EOR

• IPA^(key):

ore

1. plural of oor

• oarã

From Latin hōra. Compare Romanian oară.

ore f (plural or, definite articulation ora)

1. a time, instance

• Audio:

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ore inan

1. dough

ore

1. child

ore

1. inflection of orar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾe/

ore

1. we (exclusive)

   Ore roha'ã. ― We (excluding the listener, we and not you) try.

   Ñande jaháta okápe ha ore ropytáta ko yvyra pýpe. ― We (all, everyone) will go outside and we (not everyone, just me and some other people) will stay by this tree.

ore

1. our (possessive determiner of ore)

   Kóva ore mbo'ehao. ― This is our (and not your) school.

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.re/
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: ó‧re

ore f

1. plural of ora

• -erò, Ero, ero, reo, reo-

ore

1. Rōmaji transcription of おれ

ōre n

1. ablative singular of ōs

• “ore”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Cognate with Guaraní ore.

ore

1. we (exclusive)

From Old Dutch ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô. The original feminine gender was lost during the Middle Dutch period, shifting instead to neuter, but is still visible in the modern Dutch fossilized expression ter ore komen.

ôre n or f

1. ear

• Dutch: oor
  • Afrikaans: oor
  • Jersey Dutch: ôr
  • Negerhollands: oor, hoor, ho
• Limburgish: oear

• “ore”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “ore (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːr(ə)/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːr(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /aːr/

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“oar”), from Proto-West Germanic *airu, from Proto-Germanic *airō.

• hore, oore
• are, aurre (Northern)

ore (plural ores)

1. oar (lever for propelling a boat)

• English: oar
• Scots: air

• “ōr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From the oblique forms of Old English ār (“honour”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀu, from Proto-Germanic *aizō.

• oore, or, ȝore
• aore, are, ære (Early Middle English)
• ar, are (Northern)

ore (uncountable)

1. honour, respect (recognition of value)
2. grace, favour (positivity towards someone)::
   1. permission, approval (to engage in a behaviour)
   2. mercy, clemency (remission of punishment)
3. respite, security (safety from harm)

• oreles
• oren

• “ōr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From both Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and Old English ār (“brass”).

• hure, oer, or, oor, oore, oure, ure

ore (plural ores)

2. ore (rock that contains metal)

• English: ore
• Scots: ure, uir

From Old English ōra (“shore”).

• oure, or, oor, nore, noure

ore (plural ores)

2. edge, shore

• “ọ̄r(e, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“aurochs”)

ore

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

ore

1. Alternative form of your

ore

1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midlands) Alternative form of here (“their”)

ore

1. Alternative form of hore (“muck”)

Old French ore.

ore

1. now
   • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 4, line 2:

     des choses lesquelles nous ne conterons pas ore

     of things we will not speak of now

• French: or

Inherited from Old High German ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈoːrə/

ōre n

1. ear

• Alemannic German: Oor
• Bavarian: Oar
• Central Franconian: Uhr, Ohr
  • Hunsrik: Oher
  • Luxembourgish: Ouer
• German: Ohr
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: Ohr

• Vilamovian: ür
• Yiddish: אויער (oyer)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “ôre”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Old Saxon ōra, from Proto-Germanic *ausô.

• Stem vowel: ô²
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /ɔːrə/

ôre n

1. ear

• Low German: Ohr
  • Dutch Low Saxon: oor
  • German Low German: Or, Ur

    Plautdietsch: Oa, Ua

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.re/

ore f

1. A mine, place in which ore is dug

Weak:

• īsernōre (“iron mine”)

• ōra (“ore”)
• gyldingweċġ (“gold mine”)

For earlier *aore, from Latin hāc hōrā (“(in) this hour”).

• or, ores

ore

1. now

• French: or (archaic)

From Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).

• hore, eure, heure, eur, heur

ore oblique singular, f (oblique plural ores, nominative singular ore, nominative plural ores)

2. hour; time, period of the day (period of time)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     quel haste avez,
     Qui a tel ore vos levez?

     What haste do you have
     That wakes up at this time of day?

• English: hour
• French: heure
• Norman: heure, houre (continental Norman), heuthe (Jersey), haeure (Guernsey)

From an Proto-Yoruboid root for "female," compare with Igala óre (“female animal”), Itsekiri ore (“mother”).

• IPA^(key): /ō.ɾē/

ore

1. female

   Synonym: obìnrẹn

   Antonym: akọ (“male”)

• orẹfàn (“cow”)

ore

1. locative singular masculine/neuter & vocative singular feminine & accusative plural masculine of ora (“lower”)

ore

1. inflection of orar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

ore

1. inflection of oră:
   1. plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

ore (Cyrillic spelling оре)

1. third-person singular present of orati

ore

1. inflection of orar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

ore

1. gold

ore

1. dust, dirt

• òé (Ondo)

• IPA^(key): /ò.ɾé/

òré

1. the plants Cyperus articulatus and Cyperus esculentus, commonly used in making straw sleeping mats
2. (by extension) a straw sleeping mat, made from the òré plant

   Synonym: ẹní òré

• Edo: òré
  • Urhobo: eré

Non-standard spelling of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing”), see ire, ure, rere

• IPA^(key): /ōō.ɾē/

ore

1. Alternative form of oore (“kindness, goodness, blessing, favor”)
2. Alternative form of oore (“obligation”)