Definitions for Amora

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Amora a·mo·ra

Spelling: [uh-mawr-uh, uh-mohr

IPA: /əˈmɔr ə, əˈmoʊr ə/

Amora is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in Amora (aamor).

Definitions for Amora

noun

1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in the rabbinical academies of Palestine and Babylonia from the 3rd to the 6th centuries a.d., whose commentaries on and interpretations of the Mishnah comprise the Palestinian and Babylonian Gemaras.

Origin of Amora

From the Hebrew word āmōrā' interpreter

Examples for Amora

From this aspect of their labors they received the name of amoraim (amora, Expounder).

Then, with a condescending smile as he drew on his right glove, "Know anybody at amora?"

Mr. Larkins manifested a desire to know the name of my amora acquaintance, and was promptly enlightened.

The tribe of Raptores (amora) is uncommonly numerous, and on the whole very useful in Abyssinia.

He was said to live somewhere between amora and Sharon, perhaps here I could learn the precise location of his abiding place.

Johnny drove Nellie ten miles towards amora, driving at full speed.

Very little could be learned concerning Amy Holmes, previous to her coming to amora.

If Mr. Dwight lived at amora, then Mrs. Ballou had misunderstood or been misinformed.

On Monday morning, as before, they returned to amora, and since then had not reappeared in Groveland.

Arch Brookhouse and his brother, Louis, had both been students at amora.