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uri

/ˈuːɹi/

uri is the plural of urus.

Meaning of urus

Noun

urus (plural uri or uruses)

  1. The aurochs.
    • Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome...1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World....

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Uri

Uri

  1. A canton of Switzerland.
    Synonyms:
    canton of Uri
  2. A city in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Uri

Uri

  1. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

Noun capitalized: URI

URI (plural URIs)

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of uniform resource identifier.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of upper respiratory tract infection.

Synonyms of uri

  • canton of Uri

Forms of uri

pluralURIs

Origin of uri

From Medieval Latin Uronia, possibly from Latin ora (“edge, brim”), or from the pre-Roman substrate hydronym *wer (“water”) + the Latin suffix -n-. More at Uri.

From Hebrew אוּרִי (úri, “light”).

Questions about uri

What does uri mean?
Uri means a canton of Switzerland.
What is uri the plural of?
Uri is the plural of urus.
What part of speech is uri?
Uri can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce uri?
Uri is pronounced /ˈuːɹi/.

Words near uri in the dictionary

  1. urheimat
  2. Urheimaten
  3. urheimats
  4. Urhobo
  5. Urhobos
  6. uri
  7. Uriah
  8. Uriah Heep
  9. Uriah Heeped
  10. Uriah Heeping
  11. Uriah Heepish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uri (page history and authors); Uri (page history and authors); URI (page history and authors); urus (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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