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cor

/kɔː/US/kɔɹ/

cor interjection: expression of surprise.

Interjection

  1. (Cockney, UK) Expression of surprise.
    • […] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    wow

Noun (1)

cor (plural cors)

  1. (historical) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
  2. (historical) Synonym of homer: approximately the same volume as a dry measure.
    Synonyms:
    homer
  3. (historical) A roughly equivalent Phoenician unit of volume.

Noun (2) capitalized: CoR

CoR (uncountable)

  1. College of Radiographers, a charitable subsidiary of the Society of Radiographers.
  2. European Committee of the Regions, the European Union's assembly of local and regional representatives.
  3. Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Canadian political party.

Noun (3) capitalized: COR

COR (plural CORs)

  1. Contracting Officer's Technical Representative, or Contracting Officer's Representative, in U.S. government procurement.

cor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu

cor in Hindi

कॉर

cor in Tamil

இதய நெகிழ்வு

cor in Marathi

कॉर

cor in Telugu

కోఆర్
More languagesFewer languages
cor in Malayalam
സി. ഒ. ആർ

Examples of cor in a sentence

  • (non-final) ancien régime, coup d'état, décor, déjà vu, détente, élite, résumé, séance.
  • She has no idea how she wants the house to look in terms of décor.
  • Cor, strike a light! Did you see him jump into the river?

All 20 example sentences with cor

Synonyms of cor

Forms of cor

pluralcors
alternative formkor
alternative formcore
pluralCORs

Origin of cor

A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).

Phrases with cor

Words that rhyme with cor

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Questions about cor

What does cor mean?
Cor means expression of surprise.
What is cor in Hindi?
Cor in Hindi is कॉर. See Cor meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cor?
Cor can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce cor?
Cor is pronounced /kɔɹ/ (US).

Words near cor in the dictionary

  1. coquits
  2. coquitting
  3. coquí
  4. coquís
  5. Coqên
  6. cor
  7. cor anglais
  8. cor blimey
  9. cor bovinum
  10. cor pulmonale
  11. cor pulmonare

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cor (page history and authors); CoR (page history and authors); COR (page history and authors); cor (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cor (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cor (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cor (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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