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eger

eger is the alternative spelling of eagre.

Meaning of eagre

Noun

eagre (plural eagres)

  1. a tidal bore
    • A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.1896, Bret Harte, In a Hollow of the Hills: and Other Tales, page 210
    Synonyms:
    tidal bore, bore

Proper noun capitalized: Eger

Eger

  1. A city in Heves County, Hungary.

Forms of eger

pluralegers

Questions about eger

What does eger mean?
Eger means a city in Heves County, Hungary.
What is eger the alternative spelling of?
Eger is the alternative spelling of eagre.
What part of speech is eger?
Eger is a proper noun.

Words near eger in the dictionary

  1. Egeland
  2. egelid
  3. egence
  4. egences
  5. egency
  6. eger
  7. Egeria
  8. Egerian
  9. egerminate
  10. egerminated
  11. egerminates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eger (page history and authors); Eger (page history and authors); eagre (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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