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ords

ords is the plural of ord.

Meaning of ord

Noun

ord (plural ords)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A point.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A point of origin; a beginning.
    • "[...] But such is life — hard upon hard from ord to end; and if I had not been made of the best of neat-leather, the longer in water the tougher, I would have melted away with my tears long ago!"1897, Frank Cowan, The millionaire
  3. (UK, dialectal) A point of land; a promontory.
    • When a man came from Sutherland into Caithness over the Ord [of Caithness, in the southern tip of the county], he was called an ord-louper .1900, Cai.
  4. (UK, dialectal) The point or edge of a weapon.
    • Saul drew his sword, And ran even upon the ord. — Cursor Mundi.

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Noun capitalized: ORDs

ORDs

  1. (plural) plural of ORD

Questions about ords

What is ords the plural of?
Ords is the plural of ord.
What part of speech is ords?
Ords is a noun.

Words near ords in the dictionary

  1. ordoñezite
  2. ordre
  3. ordre public
  4. ordrely
  5. ordres
  6. ords
  7. Ordsall
  8. ordu
  9. Ordubad
  10. Orduna
  11. Ordunas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ords (page history and authors); ORDs (page history and authors); ord (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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