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snore

UK/snɔː//snoɹ/

snore verb: to breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

Verb

snore (third-person singular simple present snores, present participle snoring, simple past and past participle snored)

  1. (ambitransitive) To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
    • While you here do ſnoaring lie, / Open-ey'd Conſpiracie / His time doth take: / If of Life you keepe a care, / Shake off ſlumber, and beware. / Awake, awake.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
    • The lumpiſh husband ſnoar'd avvay the night, / Till coughs avvak'd him near the morning light.1709, Alexander Pope, “January and May; or, The Merchant’s Tale, from Chaucer”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717...
    Synonyms:
    saw wood

Noun

snore (plural snores)

  1. The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
  2. (informal) An extremely boring person or event.

snore meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

snore in Hindi

breathe during sleep with harsh noises
खर्राटा लेना kharrāṭā lenā

snore in Tamil

குறட்டை

snore in Marathi

to snore
घोरणे ghorṇe

snore in Urdu

breathe during sleep with harsh noises
خراٹا لینا xarāṭā lenā
More languagesFewer languages
snore in Bengali
নাক ডাকা nak ḍaka
snore in Telugu
గురక guraka
snore in Kannada
ಕೊರೆ, ಗೊರೆ, ಗುರುಕಿಡು, ಗುರುಗುರಿಸು
snore in Punjabi
خراٹا xarāṭā
snore in Sanskrit
आरिफ् āriph
snore in Assamese
ঘোৰঘোৰা ghürghüra, নাক বজা nak boza, ঘোৰঘোৰণি ghürghüroni
snore in Nepali
घुर्नु ghurnu
snore in Tagalog
humilik, hilik, paghilik
snore in Arabic
شَخَرَ šaḵara, شَخِير šaḵīr
snore in Malay
berdengkur
snore in Indonesian
mendengkur, berdengkur
snore in Persian
خرخر کردن xorxor kardan, خرناس کشیدن xornâs kešidan, خروپفیدن, خرناسیدن
snore in Thai
กรน gron, การกรน gaan-gron
snore in Vietnamese
ngáy, tiếng ngáy
snore in Myanmar
ဟောက် hauk

Examples of snore in a sentence

  • The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
  • Palatal flutter is a cause of sleep apnea and snoring.
  • My seatmate on the airplane snored incessantly.

All 35 example sentences with snore

Synonyms of snore

Forms of snore

Verb
third-person singular presentsnores
present participlesnoring
past participlesnored
pastsnored
Noun
pluralsnores

Past tense of snore: snored

Origin of snore

From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more).

Words formed from snore

Words that rhyme with snore

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Questions about snore

What does snore mean?
Snore means to breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
What is snore in Hindi?
Snore in Hindi is खर्राटा लेना (kharrāṭā lenā). See Snore meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is snore?
Snore can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce snore?
Snore is pronounced /snɔː/ (UK).
What is the past tense of snore?
The past tense of snore is snored.

Words near snore in the dictionary

  1. Snoqualmies
  2. Snoqualmoo
  3. Snoqualmoos
  4. snorasaurus
  5. snorasauruses
  6. snore
  7. snore-fest
  8. snore-fests
  9. snored
  10. snorefest
  11. snorefests

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: snore (page history and authors); snore (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); घोरणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); గురక (Telugu) (page history and authors); snore (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); خراٹا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); आरिफ् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); घुर्नु (Nepali) (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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