Definitions for moors

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moors moor

Spelling: [moo r]

IPA: /mʊər/

Moors is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in moors (moors).

Definitions for moors

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 moors

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

Examples for moors

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

Art thou, then, prepared to confess thy knowledge of the 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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