noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/məˈnjʊə/
Received-Pronunciation:/məˈnjɔː/
General-American:/məˈnʊɹ/
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rhymes with -ʊə(ɹ)
CMU ARPABET:M AH0 N UH1 R
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dung
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Examples
vegetable manure [= green manure]
livestock manures
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, euphemistic, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
verb
Meaning 4
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, literary
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
verb
Meaning 5
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The farmer manured his fallow field.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Narrower terms: chicken manure, cow manure, green manure, horse manure, night soil
7
verb
Meaning 7
spread manure, as for fertilization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: muck
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: spread, scatter, spread out
History
Etymology
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.
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Translations
204 source translations are retained for this English entry.