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/mʊə/ · noun
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.).
A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
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.
The vessel moored in the stream.
They moored the boat to the wharf.
His thought is tied, the curving prow Of motion moored to rock; And minutes burst upon a brow Insentient to shock.
Use moor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Moor means 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.).
Common synonyms include berth, moorland.
Possible antonyms include unmoor.
A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
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