Plural of moor
regular plural
The plural of moor is moors.
Forms of moor
| Singular | moor /mʊə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | moors |
| Countable | countable |
Moors in a sentence
- She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night!2013, Karen Perkins, Thores-Cross. From the entry hersen
- I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.1996, Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Brian Murdoch, All Quiet on the Western Front, page 129. From the entry barrack
- Covenanters too met often on our moss-hagged moors.1956, Scotland's Magazine, volume 52, page 39. From the entry hag
- Take the time when Billy Jackson, Squire Ferris's gamekeeper saw Ira on his way home from the moors and guessed he had some snickled hares in his knapsack.2007, John Waddington-Feather, Ira and the Cycling Club Lion and Other Short Stories, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry snickled
Meaning of moor
- noun An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.).
- noun A game preserve consisting of moorland.
- verb To cast anchor or become fastened.
Questions about the plural of moor
- What is the plural of moor?
- The plural of moor is moors.
- Is moor countable?
- Moor is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: moor (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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