Definitions for lores

lores lore

Spelling: [lawr, lohr]
IPA: /lɔr, loʊr/

Lores is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in lores (elors).

Definitions for lores

noun

  1. the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
  2. learning, knowledge, or erudition.
  3. Archaic. the process or act of teaching; instruction. something that is taught; lesson.
  4. the space between the eye and the bill of a bird, or a corresponding space in other animals, as snakes.

adjective

  1. low-resolution.

Origin of lores

before 950; Middle English; Old English lār; cognate with Dutch leer, German Lehre teaching. See learn

Examples for lores

In winter, like the last species, except that the bill is smaller, and the lores are black.

Adult female: Resembles adult male, but smaller with less blue and more gray on crown; lores and anterior forehead lighter.

This Yellow-throat has the crown and ear coverts gray, only the lores and forehead being black.

Similar to the last but with the superciliary line paler and the yellow reduced to a spot on the lores.

Smallest of our Vireos; crown ashy, lores and eye-ring whitish.

Immature: Resembles adult, but feathers of forehead edged with buff; spot on lores and underparts buffy margined with dusky.

A richer, half concealed, orange crown patch is acquired; the lores and adjacent parts become grayer, the anteorbital spot darker.

This species is grayish above and grayish white below, with white eye ring, lores and wing bar.

lores and crown-band black; above grayish brown washed with pale rusty.

They are distinguished from their allies by having the lores covered with feathers, and the tarsus reticulated back and front.

Word Value for lores
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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