adj
Meaning 1
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frosty
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hoar
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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Received-Pronunciation: hô
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Received-Pronunciation: /hɔː/
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General-American: hôr
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General-American: /hoɹ/
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hōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/ho(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/hoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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homophone: whore
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CMU ARPABET: HH AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Hoarily bearded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, poetic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Musty; mouldy; stale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
A white or greyish-white colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 7
Hoariness; antiquity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 8
To become mouldy or musty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair-Coleridge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- whose beard with age is hoar
- nodded his hoary head
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoary, white-haired
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: frost, hoarfrost, rime
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ice, water ice
History
Etymology
From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh3- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
* As an English surname, from the adjective hoar (“greyish white”). * Also as an English surname, from Ore in Sussex, or its source Old English ōra (“edge, brink”). Compare Middle English Hore.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: hirtë — of a white or greyish-white colour
- Czech: šedobílý — of a white or greyish-white colour
- Russian: све́тло-се́рый (svétlo-séryj) — of a white or greyish-white colour
- Russian: седо́й (sedój) — of a white or greyish-white colour
- Russian: седо́й (sedój) — hoarily bearded
- Russian: седовла́сый (sedovlásyj) — hoarily bearded
- Russian: ту́хлый (túxlyj) — musty, mouldy, stale
- Russian: за́тхлый (zátxlyj) — musty, mouldy, stale
- Russian: плесневе́лый (plesnevélyj) — musty, mouldy, stale
- Albanian: thinjur — figuratively, grey-haired with age
- Russian: ста́рый (stáryj) — figuratively, grey-haired with age
- Russian: стари́нный (starínnyj) — figuratively, grey-haired with age
- Russian: дре́вний (drévnij) — figuratively, grey-haired with age
- Russian: ве́тхий (vétxij) — figuratively, grey-haired with age
- Albanian: hiri — colour
- Bulgarian: сивобял (sivobjal) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 尨 (páng) — colour
- French: blanc-gris — colour
- Portuguese: branco gelo — colour
- Russian: све́тло-се́рый (svétlo-séryj) — colour
- Russian: дре́вность (drévnostʹ) — antiquity
- Russian: старина́ (stariná) — antiquity
- Russian: ве́тхость (vétxostʹ) — antiquity
- Russian: ту́хнуть (túxnutʹ) — to become mouldy or musty
- Russian: проту́хнуть (protúxnutʹ) — to become mouldy or musty
- Russian: пле́сневеть (plésnevetʹ) — to become mouldy or musty
- Russian: запле́сневеть (zaplésnevetʹ) — to become mouldy or musty