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books
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
books
- plural of book
- (accounting) Accounting records.
Verb
books
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of book
Anagrams
- Bokos, Koobs, bokos, kobos
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lore
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: lôr, IPA(key): /l??/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /l??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: l?r, IPA(key): /lo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /lo?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: law (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lore, from Old English l?r, from Proto-West Germanic *lai?u, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?, from *laizijan? (“to teach”). Cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre. See also learn.
Noun
lore (countable and uncountable, plural lores)
- All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
- the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
- 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- He to them calles and speakes, yet nought avayles;
- They heare him not, they have forgot his lore
- But go which way they list; their guide they have forelore.
- The backstory created around a fictional universe.
- (obsolete) Workmanship.
- 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- In her right hand a rod of peace shee bore,
- About the which two serpents weren wound;
- Entrayled mutually in lovely lore,
- And by the tailes together firmely bound […]
- 1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).
Noun
lore (plural lores)
- (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
- (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
Derived terms
- lored
Etymology 3
Verb
lore
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of lese
Anagrams
- Orel, Orle, Orël, eorl, orle, relo, role, rôle
Basque
Etymology
From Latin flos, florem.
Noun
lore inan
- flower
Declension
Ido
Etymology
From lor (“at the time of, at the same time as”) +? -e (“adverb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lo.re/, /?l?.??/
Adverb
lore
- (demonstrative adverb) then, at the time
Related terms
- lora (“then, now”)
See also
- ita (“that (person)”)
- ito (“that (thing)”)
- iti (“that (plural)”)
- pro ito (“therefore”)
- ibe (“there”)
- tala (“such kind of”)
- tale (“thus”)
- tanta (“so much”)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English l?r, from Proto-Germanic *laiz?. Compare Middle Low German lêre, lêr, Middle High German l?re, Middle Dutch lere, Old Frisian l?re.
Alternative forms
- loore, lare, lar, layre, loare, lere, leyre, leore, lære
Pronunciation
- (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA(key): /la?r(?)/
- IPA(key): /l??r(?)/
Noun
lore (plural lores or loren)
- education, tutoring, mentoring; learning; the absorption of knowledge
- lore, knowledge, information, especially:
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
- And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir… …taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto… And herfore of Wicleef speciali and of these men I toke the lore whiche I haue taughte and purpose to lyue aftir, if God wole, to my lyues ende.”
- (religion) religious beliefs, doctrine, orthodoxy
- area of study, subject, topic, science
- (rare) The foundations of a subject; the collected works on a topic.
- 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
- recommendation, suggestion, tip; admonition, exhortation, pleading
- A moral code; standards of conduct; a way of acting, standard.
- A demand, order, or task
- (rare) knowledge, aptitude, competence
- (rare) significance, value, importance
- (rare) tale, narrative
Derived terms
- larðewe
- larew
- larspel
- loresman
- lorfadyr
- lorþeine
Descendants
- English: lore
- Scots: lare, lair
References
- “l?r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.
Etymology 2
From Old English lor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??r(?)/
Noun
lore
- loss (losing something)
- loss (having soldiers killed in battle)
- ruin, destruction, injury.
Descendants
- English: lore
References
- “l?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.
Tarantino
Adjective
lore m (possessive, plural)
- theirs
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