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ardour

ardour noun: UK, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.

Noun

ardour (countable and uncountable, plural ardours)

  1. UK, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
    • I rushed towards her, and embraced her with ardour; but the deathly languor and coldness of the limbs told me, that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding...
    • The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness

ardour meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

ardour in Hindi

ardour
दमक damak

ardour in Urdu

حرارت

ardour in Malayalam

ഭയങ്കര ചൂട്, വികാരതൈഷ്ണ്യം, അതിയായ ഔത്സുക്യം, ഉത്സാഹം

ardour in Kannada

ಪಸ, ಪದೆಪು
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ardour in Sanskrit
ऊष्मन् ūṣmán

Forms of ardour

pluralardours

Questions about ardour

What does ardour mean?
Ardour means UK, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor.
What is ardour in Hindi?
Ardour in Hindi is दमक (damak). See Ardour meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ardour?
Ardour is a noun.
What is the plural of ardour?
The plural of ardour is ardours.

Words near ardour in the dictionary

  1. Ardons
  2. ardor
  3. ardors
  4. Ardouin
  5. Ardouins
  6. ardour
  7. ardours
  8. Ardoyne
  9. Ardra
  10. Ardrah
  11. Ardrahan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ardour (page history and authors); दमक (Hindi) (page history and authors); ardour (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ardour (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ardour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ऊष्मन् (Sanskrit) (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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