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Clipping of English Oriya or Odia ଓଡ଼ିଆ (oṛiā).

or

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Odia.

Clipping of English orbicula.

or

  1. (entomology) Abbreviation of orbicula.

From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).

or

  1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
    You may stay or go.
    He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
  2. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
  3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
  4. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
    It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
  5. Connects two equivalent names.

conjunction

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above).

or (plural ors)

  1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of OR.

From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.

or (countable and uncountable, plural ors)

  1. (heraldry) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
    • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:
      The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
    • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
      In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.
      or:

gold or yellow tincture

or (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.

or

  1. (obsolete) Early (on).
  2. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.

or

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Before; ere. Generally followed by "ever" or "e'er".

    • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
      I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
      But or ever a prayer had gusht,
      A wicked whisper came, and made
      My heart as dry as dust.
    • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎[2], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:
      And Time went forth into the worlds to obey the commands of the gods, yet he cast furtive glances at his masters, and the gods distrusted Time because he had known the worlds or ever the gods became.

  2. ^ Huddleston, Rodney (1988), English Grammar: An Outline, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 198–99

From Latin ōrō. Compare Daco-Romanian ura, urez.

or (participle uratã)

  1. to pray

1103; variant of hor, from Proto-Basque *hoŕ. Mostly replaced by zakur.

or anim

  1. dog
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From Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).

or m (plural ors)

  1. gold
  2. (heraldry) or

From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).

or m (plural ors)

  1. gold
  2. (heraldry) or (yellow in heraldry)

From Middle French ore, from Old French ore, from Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā (“(in) this hour”, ablative). Compare Italian ora, Spanish ahora, Portuguese agora.

or

  1. (obsolete) now, presently

or

  1. yet, however, now, that said, as it happens (introduces the second term in a syllogism)

This is often used to introduce contrasting information (like English however). However, the information need not be contrasting, but can simply be supplemental information that leads to a subsequent conclusion (similar to English as it happens).

Borrowing from French or, Italian ora and Spanish ahora.

or

  1. now, but (in argument)

Or expresses not only a sequence of two propositions, but induces a new argument, a further premise, explanation, motive. When the premise (motive) follows the conclusion, nam is used instead.

or (apocopated)

  1. apocopic form of ora (“now”), used almost exclusively in the forms or ora (“just now”) and or sono (“ago”)

or(オア) • (oa)

  1. alternative form of オア (“or”)

From ọ̄̆ther and outher.

or

  1. or

Inherited from Old English ōr, from Proto-West Germanic *ōʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

or

  1. (Early Middle English, hapax legomenon) beginning, start

or

  1. (chiefly Early Middle English and West Midland) alternative form of here (“their”)

or

  1. alternative form of ore (“honour”)

or

  1. alternative form of ore (“ore”)

or

  1. alternative form of your

Inherited from Old French or.

or m (uncountable)

  1. gold (metal)
  2. gold (color)

See ore.

or

  1. alternative form of ore

ōr n

  1. alternative form of œre

From Old Norse ǫlr, órir.

or f or m (definite singular ora or oren, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)

  1. an alder (tree of genus Alnus)

From Old Norse ǫlr, órir. Akin to English alder.

or f (definite singular ora, indefinite plural orer, definite plural orene)

or m (definite singular oren, indefinite plural orar, definite plural orane)

  1. an alder (tree of genus Alnus)

From Old Norse ór.

or

  1. out of
    Gå or minne
    Fade out of memory
  2. from
    • 1956, Olav H. Hauge, Gjer ein annan mann ei beine:
      Han kom or fjellet, skulde heim, […] .
      He came from the mountain, was heading home […] .

The use of or is largely similar to av (“of”), but have more or less the same relation as i (“in”) and på (“on”) (å, oppå), so that something that is i comes or, and something that is på comes av. E.g. koma or sjøen (“come out of the sea”) referring to fish, but koma av sjøen (“come off the sea”), referring to a fisherman.

From Proto-West Germanic *ōʀō, *ōʀ, from Proto-Germanic *ōzô, *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

ōr n

  1. origin, beginning
  2. front, vanguard

Strong _a_-stem:

Inherited from Latin aurum.

or oblique singular, m (oblique plural ors, nominative singular ors, nominative plural **or)

  1. gold (metal)
  2. gold (color)
  3. (by extension) blond(e) color

See ore.

or

  1. alternative form of ore

ōr

  1. Old West Frisian form of ōther

(ele/ei) or (modal auxiliary, third-person plural form of vrea, used with infinitives to form presumptive tenses)

  1. (they) might

or (modal auxiliary, ? form of avea, used with ? to form ? tenses)

  1. (informal, sometimes proscribed) Variation of o in the third person plural.
    Or să vină într-un minut.
    They will come in a minute.

or

  1. alternative form of ori

From Latin aurum.

or m

  1. (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) gold

A variant of ere, obsolete in modern English.

or

  1. before or until (only in certain senses)
    _It'll nae be lang or A gang ma holiday._- It'll not be long until/ before I go on holiday

Not archaic, but rare amongst young people.

Possibly from Old Irish amar (“song, singing”). See òran.

or m (genitive singular ora, plural ora or orthachan or orrachan or orthannan)

  1. hymn, incantation, petition, prayer

or (past dh’or, future oridh, verbal noun oradh, past participle orte)

  1. chant, sing
    Tha Màiri ag oradh. ― Mary is singing.

Related to orna (“moldy, spoiled by mites”), Danish oret, of obscure ultimate origin. Compare oren (“impure, dirty, unclean, rotten”).[1]

or n

  1. any mite in the superfamily Acaroidea, order Astigmata

Popular as a crossword entry.

  1. ^ “or”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎[1] (in Swedish), 1937

From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian B or.

or n

  1. wood

From Proto-Indo-European *dóru, with unexplained loss of initial */d/. Compare Tocharian A or.

or n

  1. wood

or

  1. alternative form of ar
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 78:
      Wich ad wough bethther kwingokee or baagchoosee vursth?
      Whether had we better churn or bake first?
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 9, page 88:
      Na, now or neveare! w' cry't t' Tommeen,
      Nay, now or never! we cry'd to Tommy,
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:
      Up caame ee ball, an a dap or a kewe
      Up came the ball, and a tap or a shove
    • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 104:
      Hea pryet ich mought na ha chicke or hen,
      He prayed I might not have chicken nor hen,