Noun: moor
Sample Sentences
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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.
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the ruins yet resting in the wild moors [1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:]
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And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass. [1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:]
Nouns inflected like moor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere. See: Middle English Nouns '
mor', Dutch Nouns '
moer', German Nouns '
Moor', Gothic Nouns '
𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹'.
Verbs referencing "moor"
Old Norse Nouns
mór, German Nouns
Moor, Irish Nouns
múráil.