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Plural of lore

regular plural

The plural of lore is lores.

Forms of lore

Singularlore /lɔː/
Plurallores
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lores in a sentence

  • He’s sticky and encrusted on one side below his beak and amongst the lores around his eyes by the pips and juices he has dined upon, the pith and pulp of feeding.2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 40
  • On some birds, it extends just from the eye back, leaving the lores (the area between the eye and the bill) pale and unmarked.2014, Keith Vinicombe, “Topographical Tips”, in The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-depth Look at Confusion Species, London…. From the entry eyestripe

Meaning of lore

  1. noun All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
  2. noun The backstory, especially for a character or setting, created around a fictional universe.
  3. noun Trivia shared by a person about themselves.

Full definition of lore

Questions about the plural of lore

What is the plural of lore?
The plural of lore is lores.
Is lore countable?
Lore is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lore (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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