Definitions for Tory

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Tory To·ry

Spelling: [tawr-ee, tohr-ee]

IPA: /ˈtɔr i, ˈtoʊr i/

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

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Tory (orty).

Definitions for Tory

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 Tory

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

Examples for Tory

The young Tory's first election address was delivered upon this occasion.

The map is mostly blue for Tory, after the last national election, when the Conservatives gained.

Willis was a Tory, and pronounced it possible, and indeed probable.

In return, the political establishment, be it Labour or Tory, has only asked for more.

“A Tory minister stepped out of the shadows to confront me,” Danczuk wrote in The Guardian.

That kind of thing is intolerable to a gentleman, and a Tory is a gentleman.

I can enjoy the orthodox Tory, though I could never understand him.

When Diana called for an international ban, seven months before she died, a Tory minister accused her of being a "loose cannon".

But King George and his Tory ministers were obstinate to folly.

Of the 59 MPs elected to represent Scotland in the current U.K. Parliament, only one is a Tory.