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-ors

-ors is the plural of -or.

Meaning of -or

Suffix (1)

-or (noun-forming suffix, plural -ors)

  1. Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed.
    • settle + -or → settlor
    Synonyms:
    -er, -ster
  2. Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance
    • Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.

Suffix (2)

-or (noun-forming suffix, plural -ors)

  1. Used to form nouns of quality, state, or condition.
    • err + -or → error

Questions about -ors

What is -ors the plural of?
-ors is the plural of -or.

Words near -ors in the dictionary

  1. -oriums
  2. -orph-
  3. -orphan
  4. -orphine
  5. -orphone
  6. -ors
  7. -ory
  8. -os
  9. -os-
  10. -ose
  11. -oses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ors (page history and authors); -or (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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