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moor

/mʊə/noun, verb1 syllable

Moor means: secure in or as if in a berth or dock.

Synonyms for moor4

noun, as in open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

moorland

verb, as in secure in or as if in a berth or dock

berth, tie up

verb, as in come into or dock at a wharf

berth, wharf

What does moor mean?5

verb

1

secure in or as if in a berth or dock“tie up the boat”

2

come into or dock at a wharf“the big ship wharfed in the evening”

3

secure with cables or ropes“moor the boat”

noun

1

open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

2

one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with moor?23

two syllables

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Show 40 near rhymes
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Moor in a sentence

  • A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.Hybrid
  • Go back, and never set foot upon the moor again.Hybrid
  • The flock was placed in a small moor.Amastan
  • The moors round here are mainly covered in bracken and heather.WarsawWill
  • Holmes and I walked slowly across the moor.Hybrid
  • The Moor has done his duty, the Moor can go.tinowls
  • A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.Hybrid
  • In every other direction the moor is a complete wilderness, inhabited only by a few roaming gypsies.Hybrid

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of moor

as a noun

plural
moors

as a verb

past tense
moored
present participle
mooring
third-person singular
moors