Definitions for boras

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boras Bo·rås

Spelling: [boo-raws]

IPA: /buˈrɔs/

Boras is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in boras (abors).

Definitions for boras

noun

1. a city in S Sweden, near Göteborg.
2. (on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.
3. an initiation rite of the Aborigines in which boys are accepted into the tribe as men.

Origin of boras

1860-65; Upper Italian, variant of Italian borea Boreas

Examples for boras

The boras are physically a much finer race than the Huitotos, and, generally speaking, are of a lighter hue.

This was a boras cacique, or capitn—often referred to in the depositions of those I examined—named Katenere.

So with the boras, the Andokes, or other agglomerations inhabiting the neighbouring regions.

The craven duke would be begging for his life, and we want no more boras in Czernova.

A considerable number of boras, a class of commercial Mahommedans, reside here.