definition of the word moor

• (WEAE) IPA: /mʊɹ/
• (UK) IPA: /mɔː/ (southern), IPA: /mʊu.ə(ɹ)/ (northern)
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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r) or Rhymes: -ʊu.ə(r)
• Homophones: Moore

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

moor (plural moors)

1. 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.

2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

• moorland

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