Definitions for Lorn

Lorn lorn

Spelling: [lawrn]
IPA: /lɔrn/

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

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Lorn (lnor).

Definitions for Lorn

noun

  1. Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.

adjective

  1. forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
  2. Archaic. lost, ruined, or undone.

Origin of Lorn

1250-1300; Middle English; Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose (recorded in compounds)

Examples for Lorn

John of lorn then sent forward five of his stoutest men to take Bruce.

The other was founder of the family of the MacDougalls of lorn.

I'm a lone, lorn grass-widow, dear, but I will not sleep in my stays.

Certainly, none could have been kinder to a lone, lorn female than were they.

John at once noticed her lorn, abstracted looks, pitied her,—how much he pitied her!

I know how 'tis; I know you think that I am lone and lorn; but, deary love, 'tan't so no more!

But the corries of lorn; black night on them, and the rain rot!

She learned it from a servant in lorn, who sung to her when she was a girl.

Sometimes in the spring of the year the winds from lorn have it their own way with the Highlands.

How could I expect to be wanted, being so lone and lorn, and so contrary!'

Word Value for Lorn
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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