Definitions for Tories

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Tories To·ry

Spelling: [tawr-ee, tohr-ee]

IPA: /ˈtɔr i, ˈtoʊr i/

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

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in Tories (eiorst).

Definitions for Tories

noun

1. a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
2. a member of a political party in Great Britain from the late 17th century to about 1832 that favored royal authority over Parliament and the preservation of the existing social and political order: succeeded by the Conservative party.
3. (often lowercase) an advocate of conservative principles; one opposed to reform or radicalism.
4. a person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution; a loyalist.
5. (in the 17th century) a dispossessed Irishman who resorted to banditry, especially after the invasion of Oliver Cromwell and suppression of the royalist cause (1649–52).
6. a male or female given name.

adjective

1. of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Tories.
2. being a Tory.
3. (sometimes lowercase) opposed to reform or radicalism; conservative.

Origin of Tories

1640-50; Irish *tóraighe outlaw, bandit, derivative of tóir chase, pursuit

Examples for Tories

tories and Peers especially were enraged, and regarded themselves as baffled.

He is a free-thinker and a republican—we are church people and tories.

Indeed, the tories of that day, many of them big landowners, found an intellectual champion in one Thomas Malthus.

tories and Liberals knew he had not shrunk from meeting the public on this question.

Why, Tryon County ought, by all the rules, to be the tories' strongest citadel.

“The tories played a very risky card in selecting her,” says Palumbo.

In the short term, though, the tories might be hurt more by a “yes” win.

It all gets even more baroque, and, in the short term anyway, even worse for the tories.

The tories had a great majority of the new members returned.

The Daily Express claimed that fewer than one in 10 tories supported her candidacy.