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Sauron

UK/ˈsaʊ(ə)ɹɒn/US/ˈsaʊɹɑn/

Sauron proper noun: the title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor. Also the alternative form of SAURON.

Proper noun (1)

Sauron

  1. The title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor.

Noun

Sauron (plural Saurons)

  1. An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
    • 'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]2004 January 8, “The story goes on being relevant”, in Birmingham Evening Mail
    • For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.2007 February, “Overload”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 12

Proper noun (2) capitalized: SAURON

SAURON

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of steep and uneven ring of non-thermal radiation, an ORC (“odd radio circle”) found in the southern sky.

Also used as

Sauron is also the alternative form of SAURON.

Forms of Sauron

Noun
pluralSaurons
Proper noun
alternative formSauron

Origin of Sauron

From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).

Backronym inspired by the type of radio object it falls under, the ORCs, and the master of orcs in Tolkien literature, Sauron. Coined in 2022 by the discovery team made up of researchers from MeerKAT, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), and University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Words formed from Sauron

Phrases with Sauron

Questions about Sauron

What does Sauron mean?
Sauron means the title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor.
What part of speech is Sauron?
Sauron can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Sauron?
Sauron is pronounced /ˈsaʊ(ə)ɹɒn/ (UK).

Words near Sauron in the dictionary

  1. saurolophines
  2. Sauromatia
  3. Sauromatian
  4. Sauromatians
  5. Sauromatic
  6. Sauron
  7. Sauronesque
  8. Saurons
  9. saurophagous
  10. saurophilia
  11. sauropod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sauron (page history and authors); SAURON (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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