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spoors

spoors is the plural of spoor.

spoors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spoor.

Meaning of spoor

Noun

spoor (usually uncountable, plural spoors)

  1. (usually) The track, trail, droppings, or scent of an animal.
    • We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Spoors

Spoors (plural Spoorses)

  1. An occupational surname from Middle English

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Spoors

Spoors

  1. (plural) plural of Spoor

Synonyms of spoors

Forms of spoors

pluralSpoorses

Origin of spoors

From Old English spora (“spur”), signifying the maker of spurs.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about spoors

What does spoors mean?
Spoors means an occupational surname from Middle English.
What is spoors the plural of?
Spoors is the plural of spoor.
What part of speech is spoors?
Spoors is a proper noun.

Words near spoors in the dictionary

  1. spoorer
  2. spoorers
  3. Spoores
  4. spooring
  5. spoorless
  6. spoors
  7. spoos
  8. Spor
  9. spor-
  10. sporabola
  11. sporabolas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spoors (page history and authors); Spoors (page history and authors); spoor (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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