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- Dictionarymoor/mʊə/
noun
- 1. a tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather: British "a little town in the moors"
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MOOR definition: 1. an open area of hills covered with rough grass, especially in Britain: 2. to tie a boat so that…. Learn more.
The meaning of MOOR is an expanse of open rolling infertile land. How to use moor in a sentence.
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. [ mainly British ] Colliford is higher, right up on the moors.
Christian and Moor playing chess, from The Book of Games of Alfonso X, c. 1285. The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. [1] Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defined people. [2]
MOOR meaning: 1. an open area of hills covered with rough grass, especially in Britain: 2. to tie a boat so that…. Learn more.
What does the noun moor mean? There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun moor , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. [mainly British] [...] 2. If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. [...] 3.
Moor definition: a tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.. See examples of MOOR used in a sentence.
To moor is to tie up a ship, as in to moor the ocean liner to the docks. Or, if you're reading Victorian literature, a moor could be a mossy meet-up spot. This word of many hats can also be a noun — a moor is mossy land covered in bushes and grass.
1. To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines: moor a ship to a dock; a dirigible moored to a tower. 2. To fix in place; secure: a mailbox moored to the sidewalk with bolts. See Synonyms at fasten. 3. To provide with an abiding emotional attachment: a politician moored to the family back home. v.intr. 1.
