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moors

moors is the plural of moor.

moors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of moor.

Meaning of moor

Noun

moor (plural moors)

  1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
    • A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
  2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.

See all 12 meanings of moor

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Moors

Moors

  1. (British, India, obsolete) Hindustani; Urdu.
    • [I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206

Noun capitalized: Moors

Moors

  1. (plural) plural of Moor

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Moors

Moors (plural Moorses or Moors)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. An English surname transferred from the given name.

Forms of moors

pluralMoorses
pluralMoors

Origin of moors

From Dutch Moors (“Moorish”), or directly from Moor + -s (after e.g. Scots).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Phrases with moors

Questions about moors

What does moors mean?
Moors means hindustani; Urdu.
What is moors the plural of?
Moors is the plural of moor.
What part of speech is moors?
Moors can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near moors in the dictionary

  1. Mooroopna
  2. Mooroopna North
  3. Mooroopna North West
  4. moorpan
  5. Moorpark
  6. moors
  7. moors up
  8. Moorside
  9. moorsman
  10. moorsmen
  11. Moorsom

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