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mure

/mjʊə(ɹ)/

mure noun: wall.

Noun

mure (plural mures)

  1. (obsolete) wall
    • Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
      Hath wrought the mure that should confine it inc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
  2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

Adjective

mure (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

  1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • Therewith he mured up his mouth along,
      And therein shut up his blasphemous tong1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • The five kings are mured in a cave.a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)

mure meaning in Urdu

mure in Urdu

بند کرنا, قید کرنا

Forms of mure

Noun
pluralmures
Verb
third-person singular presentmures
present participlemuring
past participlemured
pastmured

Origin of mure

Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

Words that rhyme with mure

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Questions about mure

What does mure mean?
Mure means wall.
What is mure in Urdu?
Mure in Urdu is بند کرنا, قید کرنا. See Mure meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mure?
Mure can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce mure?
Mure is pronounced /mjʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of mure?
The plural of mure is mures.

Words near mure in the dictionary

  1. Murdock
  2. murdress
  3. murdresses
  4. murdrum
  5. Murdunna
  6. mure
  7. mured
  8. mureidomycin
  9. mureidomycins
  10. murein
  11. mureins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mure (page history and authors); mure (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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