Moor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mʊə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Moor is a noun meaning A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Meaning
A game preserve consisting of moorland.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
Example Sentences
The vessel moored in the stream.
They moored the boat to the wharf.
the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
Word Forms
- moors
- mooring
- moored
Synonyms for moor
Depending on context, synonyms include berth, moorland.
Antonyms for moor
Common opposites include unmoor.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include moorland, berth, heath, harbour, anchor, holme.
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