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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A village in Blore-with-Swinscoe parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK137493).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To cry; cry out; weep.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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verb
To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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History
From Old English blōr (“swelling”).
Perhaps from blore above, a variant of blare, affected by blow. Compare also Gaelic and Irish blor (“a loud noise”).
From Middle English bloren, variation of bleren, blaren, from Old English *blǣran, *blārian (“to blare, bellow, cry”). More at blare.
