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morse

/ˈmɔː(ɹ)s//mɔːs/

morse noun: a clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.

Noun (1)

morse (plural morses)

  1. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
    • The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC

Noun (2)

morse (plural morses)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of walrus.
    • The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66
    • Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881
    Synonyms:
    walrus

Proper noun capitalized: Morse

Morse

  1. A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Morris, from the given name Maurice.
  2. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada, named after inventor Samuel Morse.
  3. A rural municipality in southern Saskatchewan, which includes the town; in full, the Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165.
  4. An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
  5. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Iowa.
  6. A village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
  7. Two townships in Minnesota.
  8. A census-designated place in Hansford County, Texas.
  9. A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin.
  10. An unincorporated community in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

Noun (3) capitalized: Morse

Morse (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of Morse code.
    • We sent a message in Morse.

Verb capitalized: Morse

Morse (third-person singular simple present Morses, present participle Morsing, simple past and past participle Morsed)

  1. (transitive) To transmit by Morse code.
    • It was Gibson who was right. Code 78A was Morsed back to Grantham – 'bomb despatched and hit wall but no breach observed'. No doubt the wording of Operation Chastise's operation order now started to hit home […]2014, W. B. Bartlett, The Night of the Dam Busters

morse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

morse in Hindi

मोर्स, मॉर्स

morse in Tamil

மோர்ஸ்

morse in Marathi

मोर्स, मॉर्स

morse in Urdu

موورس
More languagesFewer languages
morse in Bengali
মোর্স, মোরস
morse in Telugu
మోర్స్, మొర్స్
morse in Malayalam
മോർസ്, മോഴ്സ്
morse in Kannada
ಮೋರ್ಸ್, ಮೊರ್ಸ್
morse in Punjabi
ਮੋਰਸ, ਮੌਰਸ
morse in Gujarati
મોર્સ, મોર્સે, મોરસ
morse in Odia
ମୋର୍ସ, ମୋର୍ସ୍
morse in Nepali
मोर्स, मोर्से

Synonyms of morse

Forms of morse

Noun
pluralmorses
Verb
third-person singular presentMorses
present participleMorsing
past participleMorsed
pastMorsed

Origin of morse

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.

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Phrases with morse

Words that rhyme with morse

Questions about morse

What does morse mean?
Morse means a clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative.
What is morse in Hindi?
Morse in Hindi is मोर्स, मॉर्स. See Morse meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is morse?
Morse can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce morse?
Morse is pronounced /mɔːs/ (UK).
What is the plural of morse?
The plural of morse is morses.

Words near morse in the dictionary

  1. Mors
  2. morsal
  3. morsals
  4. Morsch
  5. Morsches
  6. morse
  7. Morse alphabet
  8. Morse alphabets
  9. Morse code
  10. Morse codes
  11. Morse function

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morse (page history and authors); Morse (page history and authors); morse (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); morse (Nepali, 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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