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Orr

US/ɔɹ/

Orr proper noun: a Scottish surname.

Proper noun (1)

Orr

  1. A Scottish surname.
    • Your God is a reproachful God. But guilt was not the way to get at George Orr; if he had been a man much given to guilt feelings he would not have lived to thirty.1971, Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe Of Heaven
  2. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky.
  3. A minor city in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
  4. An unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia.

Noun capitalized: ORR

ORR (plural ORRs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of overall response rate or objective response rate.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: ORR

ORR

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Office of Rail and Road, a non-ministerial government department in the United Kingdom.

Forms of Orr

pluralORRs

Words formed from Orr

Questions about Orr

What does Orr mean?
Orr means a Scottish surname.
What part of speech is Orr?
Orr can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Orr?
Orr is pronounced /ɔɹ/ (US).

Words near Orr in the dictionary

  1. orping
  2. Orpington
  3. Orpingtons
  4. orps
  5. Orpustan
  6. Orr
  7. Orr's Island
  8. orra
  9. orrach
  10. orrachs
  11. Orrantia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Orr (page history and authors); ORR (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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