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The title character and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, where he rules the land of Mordor.
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name
Alternative form of SAURON.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
Acronym of steep and uneven ring of non-thermal radiation, an ORC (“odd radio circle”) found in the southern sky.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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noun
An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
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History
From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).
Backronym inspired by the type of radio object it falls under, the ORCs, and the master of orcs in Tolkien literature, Sauron. Coined in 2022 by the discovery team made up of researchers from MeerKAT, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), and University of the Western Cape (UWC).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
