ort
UK/ɔːt/US/oɹt/
ort noun: a fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
Noun (1)
ort (plural orts)
- A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- […]the rich ate and drank freely, and accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of...1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
- Come, Kinch, you have eaten all we left. Ay, I will serve you your orts and offals.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
- A small coin, formerly used in central Europe.
- ORT (French), the gross weight; garbage or refuse; a Norwegian coin of 24 skillings, also called a mark, and equal to 9 1/2 d.; an Hungarian coin, containing 12 kreutzers; in Poland, 5 orts make a rix-dollar; also a Swedish money equal to 2 farthings, sometimes called a runstick.1872, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms ..., page 268
- The coins of Sigismund III. range in value from […] the solidus, denarius, half gros, gros, 1 1/2 gros, 3 crucifer, 3 gros, 6 gros, quarter crown or thaler, (ort); half crown, crown, double crown, ducat, […] These coins are the solidus, 3 gros, 6 gros, ort (quarter thaler), thaler (crown); […]1915, The Numismatist: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Those Interested in Coins, Medals, and Paper Money, page 245
Verb
ort (third-person singular simple present orts, present participle orting, simple past and past participle orted)
- To turn away from with disgust; refuse.
Noun (2) capitalized: ORT
ORT (countable and uncountable, plural ORTs)
- Initialism of oral rehydration therapy.
Synonyms of ort
Forms of ort
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | orts |
| plural | ORTs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | orts |
| present participle | orting |
| past participle | orted |
| past | orted |
Origin of ort
From Middle English orte, from Old English *oreta (“that which is left after eating”, literally “out-eat”); for more, see Old English or-, English eat. Cognate with Middle Low German orte (“refuse of food”), Middle Dutch ooraete, ooreete, Low German ort (“ort”), Middle High German urez, German Uräß and also German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler, etc)”). As the term for a coin, probably borrowed from the central European languages which used it: German Ort (“quarter (of a thaler)”), Polish ort (“coin”), etc.
Words that rhyme with ort
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- export
- mort
- assort
- escort
- fort
- quart
- resort
- retort
- thwart
- wart
- cavort
- comport
- detort
- distort
- extort
- swart
- transport
- apport
- come short
- consort
- contort
- desport
- purport
- reimport
- tort
- accourt
- aport
- asnort
- asport
- bort
- coreport
- Crown Court
- dort
- exhort
- Isle aux Morts
- kangaroo court
- misreport
- reexport
- rereport
- rort
- skort
- spoilsport
- torte
- worrywart
Questions about ort
- What does ort mean?
- Ort means a fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.
- What part of speech is ort?
- Ort can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce ort?
- Ort is pronounced /ɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ort?
- The plural of ort is orts.
Words near ort in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ort (page history and authors); ORT (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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