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WR

WR is the initialism of world record.

WR is the initialism of wide receiver.

WR is the initialism of Wolf-Rayet star.

WR is the initialism of Wassermann reaction.

WR is the initialism of World Rugby.

WR is the initialism of William Rex.

Meaning of world record

Noun

world record (plural world records)

  1. The world's best score or time for a certain event.
    Synonyms:
    world's record, WR
  2. (idiomatic) Any characteristic or accomplishment that exceeds all other instances of that characteristic or accomplishment.

Meaning of wide receiver

Noun

wide receiver (plural wide receivers)

  1. An offensive football player whose position on the line of scrimmage is farthest from the ball and whose function is to principally to catch passes.
    • All season, the Chiefs have struggled on offense, in particular in the pass catching department. On multiple occasions throughout the regular season, Mahomes was burned by mental miscues from his wide receivers which cost the Chiefs wins.2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com

Forms of WR

pluralWRs

Questions about WR

What is WR the initialism of?
WR is the initialism of world record.

Words near WR in the dictionary

  1. WQHD
  2. wqo
  3. wqos
  4. WQVGA
  5. WQXGA
  6. WR
  7. WRA
  8. WRAAC
  9. WRAAF
  10. Wrabetz
  11. Wrabness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: WR (page history and authors); world record (page history and authors); wide receiver (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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