ogre
UK/ˈəʊ.ɡə//ˈoʊ.ɡɚ/
ogre noun: a large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
Noun
ogre (plural ogres)
- A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
- And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold."...1828, Thomas Keightley, Fairy Mythology, volume II, page 237
- If I came suddenly upon a well where women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden flight was the certain result; which things occurring day after day, were very unpleasant to a person who does not like to be disliked, and who had never been accustomed to be treated as an ogre.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 350
- A cruel person.
- People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!
Proper noun capitalized: Ogre
Ogre
ogre meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ogre in Hindi
- ओग्रे
ogre in Tamil
- அரக்கன்
ogre in Marathi
- brutish giant
- राक्षस rākṣas, दानव dānav
- brutish man
- राक्षस rākṣas
ogre in Urdu
- آدم خور دیو, عفریت
More languagesFewer languages
- ogre in Bengali
- রাক্ষস, দানব, অত্যন্ত নিষ্ঠুর ব্যক্তি
- ogre in Telugu
- రాక్షసి rākṣasi
- ogre in Malayalam
- ഓഗർ ōgaṟ
- ogre in Kannada
- ಓಗ್ರೆ, ಒಗ್ರೆ
- ogre in Punjabi
- ਓਗਰੇ
- ogre in Gujarati
- ઓગ્રે, ઓગ્ર્રે
- ogre in Odia
- ଓଗ୍ରେ, ଓଗ୍ର୍ରେ
- ogre in Nepali
- ओग्रे, ओग्र्रे
- ogre in Arabic
- غُول ḡūl, غَشِيم ḡašīm
- ogre in Indonesian
- buto
- ogre in Persian
- غول پیکر, غول
- ogre in Thai
- ผีปอบ
- ogre in Myanmar
- ဘီလူး bhilu:
Examples of ogre in a sentence
- And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have to deal with[.]1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 32:
- From his end of the hall Beowulf watched the ogre, weighed his endowment, and waited to see how Grendel would strike.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 29:
Forms of ogre
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Origin of ogre
First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc and Orcus.
Borrowed from Latvian Ogre.
Words formed from ogre
Questions about ogre
- What does ogre mean?
- Ogre means a large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
- What is ogre in Hindi?
- Ogre in Hindi is ओग्रे. See Ogre meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use ogre in a sentence?
- And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have to deal with[.]
- What part of speech is ogre?
- Ogre can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ogre?
- Ogre is pronounced /ˈəʊ.ɡə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ogre?
- The plural of ogre is ogres.
Words near ogre in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ogre (page history and authors); Ogre (page history and authors); ogre (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ogre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ogre (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ogre (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); రాక్షసి (Telugu) (page history and authors); ogre (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ogre (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ogre (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ogre (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ogre (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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