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urforms

urforms is the plural of urform.

Meaning of urform

Noun

urform (plural urforms)

  1. The (real or idealised) version of a transmissible cultural element, such as a word, language, religion, ideology, folktale, melody, meme, etc., which is taken to be the original form from which all other versions have deviated.
    • Then by careful comparison they constructed a genealogy, finally deriving the outline of the ur-form, from which all other variants stemmed.2003, David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture
    Synonyms:
    protoform

Questions about urforms

What is urforms the plural of?
Urforms is the plural of urform.

Words near urforms in the dictionary

  1. Urfan
  2. Urfirnis
  3. urflies
  4. urfly
  5. urform
  6. urforms
  7. URG
  8. Urga
  9. urge
  10. urge on
  11. urge to merge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urforms (page history and authors); urform (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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