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gore

name · noun · verb · 40 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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

Pronunciation

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  • US: /ɡɔːɹ/
  • Received-Pronunciation:
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɔː/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: gôr
  • General-American: /ɡoɹ/
  • gōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  • /ɡo(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  • /ɡoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: G AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Al Gore was the 45th Vice-President of the United States.

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2

name

Meaning 2

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

name

Meaning 3

A place name:

A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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4

name

Meaning 4

A place name:

A town in eastern Southland, New Zealand, situated on the Mataura River and named after Thomas Gore Browne.

A territorial authority in Southland, New Zealand, that includes the town; in full, Gore District.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

name

Meaning 5

A place name:

A small town in Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia, named after St George Richard Gore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

name

Meaning 6

A place name:

Gore Water, a minor tributary in Scotland which flows through Gorebridge to the River South Esk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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7

name

Meaning 7

A place name:

A rural community in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after Charles Stephen Gore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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8

name

Meaning 8

A place name:

A township municipality in Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, named after Francis Gore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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9

name

Meaning 9

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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10

name

Meaning 10

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

A township in Huron County, Michigan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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11

name

Meaning 11

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Warren County, Missouri.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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12

name

Meaning 12

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Hocking County, Ohio.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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13

name

Meaning 13

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

A town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, named after Thomas Gore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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14

name

Meaning 14

A place name:

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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15

noun

Meaning 15

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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16

noun

Meaning 16

A gout or mass of such blood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, usually

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17

noun

Meaning 17

Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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18

noun

Meaning 18

Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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19

noun

Meaning 19

Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Qualifier: obsolete except in dialects

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20

noun

Meaning 20

A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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21

noun

Meaning 21

A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, dialectal

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22

noun

Meaning 22

A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: geography, natural-sciences, surveying

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23

noun

Meaning 23

The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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24

noun

Meaning 24

A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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25

noun

Meaning 25

An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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26

noun

Meaning 26

A projecting point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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27

noun

Meaning 27

A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

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28

noun

Meaning 28

A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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29

verb

Meaning 29

To cover or smear with blood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

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30

verb

Meaning 30

To pierce with a horn or tusk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The bull gored the matador.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: horn

Antonyms: none provided

31

verb

Meaning 31

To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, lancinate, pigstick, pink, poach, shank, shiv, spear, speet, splash, stab, stick, stob, stog, thrust, yerk

Antonyms: none provided

32

verb

Meaning 32

To needle or wound the feelings of.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, transitive

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33

verb

Meaning 33

To cut into a triangular form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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34

verb

Meaning 34

To provide with a gore.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • to gore an apron

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35

noun

Meaning 35

the shedding of blood resulting in murder

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bloodshed

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: murder, slaying, execution

36

noun

Meaning 36

a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: panel

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: piece of cloth, piece of material

37

noun

Meaning 37

coagulated blood from a wound

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: blood

38

noun

Meaning 38

Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Al Gore, Albert Gore Jr.

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Vice President of the United States

39

verb

Meaning 39

wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: pierce, thrust

40

verb

Meaning 40

cut into gores

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • gore a skirt

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Synonyms: none provided

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Broader terms: cut, tailor

History

Etymology

From any of various places named Gore, from gore (“a triangular piece of land where roads meet”).

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwher- (“hot; warm”). Cognate to Old Norse gorr, gor (“intestines, (half-digested) intestinal contents, filth, dung; peat, silt earth”).

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English gār (“spear”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhoysós. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Across languages

Translations

98 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: Գոր (Gor) — surname
  • Russian: Гор (Gor) — surname
  • Bulgarian: съсирена кръв (sǎsirena krǎv) — thick blood
  • Carpathian Rusyn: спекла кров (spekla krov) — thick blood
  • Chinese Mandarin: 瘀血 (yūxuè) — thick blood
  • Chinese Mandarin: 淤血 (yūxuè) — thick blood
  • Czech: krev — thick blood
  • Czech: sedlá krev — thick blood
  • Czech: sražená krev — thick blood
  • Finnish: hurme — thick blood
  • French: sang coagulé — thick blood
  • Galician: merexo — thick blood
  • Galician: cadullo — thick blood
  • Galician: coallo — thick blood
  • German: Blut — thick blood
  • German: geronnenes Blut — thick blood
  • Ancient Greek: βρότος (brótos) — thick blood
  • Ancient Greek: λύθρον (lúthron) — thick blood
  • Ancient Greek: ἔαρ (éar) — thick blood
  • Hungarian: alvadt vér — thick blood
  • Icelandic: dreyri — thick blood
  • Italian: coagulo — thick blood
  • Italian: grumo — thick blood
  • Italian: sangue rappreso — thick blood
  • Japanese: 血糊 (chinori) — thick blood
  • Latin: cruor — thick blood
  • Old English: drēor — thick blood
  • Persian: دلمه (dalame) — thick blood
  • Polish: (zakrzepła) krew — thick blood
  • Portuguese: sangue coagulado — thick blood
  • Russian: кровь — thick blood
  • Russian: кровоподтёк (krovopodtjók) — thick blood
  • Spanish: sangre cuajada — thick blood
  • Spanish: sangre de la herida — thick blood
  • Spanish: coágulo — thick blood
  • Spanish: sangre — thick blood
  • Spanish: crúor — thick blood
  • Tamil: குருதி (kuruti) — thick blood
  • Turkish: pıhtılaşmış kan — thick blood
  • Ukrainian: загусла кров (zahusla krov) — thick blood
  • Yakut: бөлүөҕүрбүт хаан (bölüöğürbüt qaan) — thick blood
  • Finnish: kiila — triangular piece of land where roads meet
  • Finnish: peltokiila — triangular piece of land where roads meet
  • French: musoir — triangular piece of land where roads meet
  • Spanish: cuchilla — triangular piece of land where roads meet
  • Arabic: بَنِيقَة (banīqa) — triangular patch of fabric
  • Bulgarian: клин (klin) — triangular patch of fabric
  • Catalan: gaia — triangular patch of fabric
  • Finnish: kiila — triangular patch of fabric
  • French: godet — triangular patch of fabric
  • German: Gehre — triangular patch of fabric
  • German: Zwickel — triangular patch of fabric
  • Italian: gherone — triangular patch of fabric
  • Italian: fortezza — triangular patch of fabric
  • Serbo-Croatian: klin — triangular patch of fabric
  • Serbo-Croatian: umetak — triangular patch of fabric
  • Spanish: segmento triangular — triangular patch of fabric
  • Spanish: gajo — triangular patch of fabric
  • Spanish: nesga — triangular patch of fabric
  • Tagalog: sudya — triangular patch of fabric
  • Tagalog: pagsusudya — triangular patch of fabric
  • French: gousset — heraldic charge
  • Portuguese: nesga — heraldic charge
  • Arabic: ينطح — to pierce with a horn
  • Bashkir: һөҙөү (höźöw) — to pierce with a horn
  • Basque: adarkatu — to pierce with a horn
  • Bulgarian: пробождам (proboždam) — to pierce with a horn
  • Catalan: banyegar — to pierce with a horn
  • Chinese Mandarin: 頂 /顶 (dǐng) — to pierce with a horn
  • Czech: nabodnout — to pierce with a horn
  • Czech: nabrat — to pierce with a horn
  • Danish: stange — to pierce with a horn
  • Dutch: spiezen — to pierce with a horn
  • Finnish: seivästää — to pierce with a horn
  • Finnish: lävistää sarvillaan — to pierce with a horn
  • French: encorner — to pierce with a horn
  • Galician: cornear — to pierce with a horn
  • German: aufspießen — to pierce with a horn
  • German: stechen — to pierce with a horn
  • Ingrian: puskia — to pierce with a horn
  • Italian: incornare — to pierce with a horn
  • Polish: bóść — to pierce with a horn
  • Polish: bodnąć — to pierce with a horn
  • Portuguese: chifrar — to pierce with a horn
  • Portuguese: cornear — to pierce with a horn
  • Russian: бода́ть (bodátʹ) — to pierce with a horn
  • Russian: бодну́ть (bodnútʹ) — to pierce with a horn
  • Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’) — to pierce with a horn
  • Spanish: cornear — to pierce with a horn
  • Spanish: coger — to pierce with a horn
  • Spanish: empuntar — to pierce with a horn
  • Spanish: empitonar — to pierce with a horn
  • Thai: ขวิด (kwìt) — to pierce with a horn
  • Turkish: süsmek — to pierce with a horn
  • Turkish: boynuzlamak — to pierce with a horn
  • Ottoman Turkish: سوسمك (süsmek) — to pierce with a horn
  • Ugaritic: 𐎐𐎂𐎈 (ngḥ) — to pierce with a horn
  • Vietnamese: húc — to pierce with a horn