Standard Lemma guide
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.
contraction
Abbreviation of you're (you are).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, informal, rare
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name
A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Use, practise, exercise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Synonym of aurochs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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verb
To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, obsolete
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History
From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.
From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.
From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.
