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nitre

nitre noun: UK standard spelling of niter.

Noun

nitre (countable and uncountable, plural nitres)

  1. UK standard spelling of niter.
    • For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 2:22
    • The best yellow on cotton is dyed with sugar, or nitre of lead and the bichromate of potass.1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72

nitre meaning in Tamil and Urdu

nitre in Tamil

நைற்றர், வெடி உப்பு

nitre in Urdu

شورہ

Forms of nitre

pluralnitres

Words formed from nitre

Phrases with nitre

Words that rhyme with nitre

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Questions about nitre

What does nitre mean?
Nitre means UK standard spelling of niter.
What is nitre in Tamil?
Nitre in Tamil is நைற்றர், வெடி உப்பு. See Nitre meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nitre?
Nitre is a noun.
What is the plural of nitre?
The plural of nitre is nitres.

Words near nitre in the dictionary

  1. nitrators
  2. nitrats
  3. nitrazepam
  4. nitrazepate
  5. nitrazine
  6. nitre
  7. nitre bush
  8. nitre bushes
  9. nitre goosefoot
  10. nitre of potash
  11. nitrefazole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nitre (page history and authors); nitre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nitre (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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