Word.ws English Dictionary

Exmoor

Exmoor proper noun: a moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.

Proper noun

Exmoor

  1. A moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.

Noun

Exmoor (plural Exmoors)

  1. One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, with white legs and face and black nostrils.
  2. One of a breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

Forms of Exmoor

pluralExmoors

Origin of Exmoor

From Old English Ex + mōr (“moor”), 'the wet land where the River Exe rises'.

Questions about Exmoor

What does Exmoor mean?
Exmoor means a moor and national park in Devon and Somerset, southern England.
What part of speech is Exmoor?
Exmoor can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Exmoor in the dictionary

  1. exmatriculation
  2. exmedial
  3. exmedially
  4. Exminster
  5. exmo
  6. Exmoor
  7. Exmoorian
  8. Exmoorians
  9. Exmoors
  10. Exmore
  11. Exmouth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Exmoor (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Exmoor.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/exmoor. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.