Definitions for hoar

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Spelling: [hawr, hohr]
IPA: /hɔr, hoʊr/

Hoar is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hoar (ahor).

Definitions for hoar

noun

  1. hoarfrost; rime.
  2. a hoary coating or appearance.

adjective

  1. hoary.

Origin of hoar

before 900; Middle English hor, Old English hār; cognate with Old Norse hārr gray with age, Old Frisian hēr gray, Old High German hēr old (German hehr august, sublime)

Examples for hoar

Mr. hoar: They would find room in some other committee-room.

He did this in common with all the world, including hoar himself.

"All right, all right—not at all—not at all—" He ran on, joining the hoar and shouting wave.

Among others they quarrelled with hoar, and drove him from office.

Mr. hoar: If the senator will pardon me, however, he has not answered my question.

The sun had just set as we took to flight; the hoar frost fell.

As an epithet applied to the hair we often find hoar; cf. Horlock.

How eagerly I now would pierce The gulf that groweth wild and hoar!

At Amherst a large gathering of students listened to Senator hoar.

Senator hoar, in a speech on January 9, 1899, put the issue squarely.

Word Value for hoar
Scrable

7

Words with friends

6

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