Definitions for Moor

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Moor moor

Spelling: [moo r]

IPA: /mʊər/

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

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Moor (moor).

Definitions for Moor

noun

1. a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.
2. a tract of land preserved for game.
3. the act of mooring.
4. a Muslim of the mixed Berber and Arab people inhabiting NW Africa.
5. a member of this group that invaded Spain in the 8th century a.d. and occupied it until 1492.

verb (used with object)

1. to secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines.
2. to fix firmly; secure.

verb (used without object)

1. to moor a ship, small boat, etc.
2. to be made secure by cables or the like.

Origin of Moor

before 900; Middle English more, Old English mōr; cognate with Dutch moer, German Moor marsh

Examples for Moor

Aboukar, for such was the moor's name, then ushered in his kinsman.

Estevanico, or “Esteban the moor,” arrived on the continent in 1534.

Boabdil motioned to the moor to withdraw, and an alfaqui advanced in his stead.

As he drew up upon the moor the clock of Chedzoy struck one.

"Thy mother's soul has passed into mine," said the moor, tenderly.

Muza was at the door; but the moor paused irresolutely, ere he dismounted.

"Fame lies to us, then," answered the moor, with some surprise.

And never was known, to moor or Christian, the future fate of the hero of Granada.

She was absolved of the charge because a portrait of a moor hung above her bed.

Art thou, then, prepared to confess thy knowledge of the moor?